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  • Yellowstone fires still ignite controversy

    In Scorched Earth, journalist Rocky Barker describes firsthand the chaos and consequences of the Yellowstone fires

    by Gary Wockner, Nov 28, 2005

  • Montana gets a taste of old-time logging

    Critics say a massive salvage-logging operation in the wildfire-burned Sula State Forest, Mont., won't leave enough snags and downed trees for wildlife and forest rejuvenation.

    by Mark Matthews, Apr 09, 2001

  • New Mexico loggers get 'police power'

    In New Mexico, environmentalists are aghast at a new law, approved by legislators of both parties, that gives counties 'police power' to cut trees in national forests threatened by fire.

    by Paul Krza, Apr 09, 2001

  • After the fires, Part I

    An introduction to this issue's lead story and the next talks about the need for changes in the Forest Service's fire policy, especially in the West.

    by Greg Hanscom, Apr 23, 2001

  • The Big Blowup

    A historian of fire recalls the "Big Blowup" of 1910, an explosion of wildfire in Idaho that took 78 lives, made a hero of ranger Ed Pulaski, and helped to share a century of fire policy on the national forests.

    by Stephen J. Pyne, Apr 23, 2001

  • Back into the woods

    In the wake of last summer's devastating Western wildfires, the Forest Service is trying to figure out how to restore the unhealthy, doghair, fire-prone forests created by a century of fire suppression and indiscriminate logging.

    by Mark Matthews, May 07, 2001

  • The West's fire survivors

    A look at the Intermountain West's trees notes how the different species adapt to and even profit from periodic fires.

    by Mark Matthews, May 07, 2001

  • Making forests safe again won't be a walk in the park

    On Arizona's Coconino National Forest outside of Flagstaff, foresters are working to thin the overgrown, doghair woods to prevent catastrophic wildfires.

    by Matt Jenkins, May 07, 2001

  • The year it rained money

    A Forest Service employee talks about the intoxicating influence and "cargo cult" side effects of Forest Service firefighting money on small Western towns like hers.

    by Louise Wagenknecht, May 07, 2001

  • Tragedy re-ignites wildfire debate

    After the Thirty Mile Fire in Washington's Methow Valley takes the lives of four firefighters, some say the fire should never have been fought.

    by Rachel Jackson, Jul 30, 2001
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