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  • The gray area: a conversation with artist Renee Couture

    The gray area: a conversation with artist Renee Couture

    An Oregon artist reinterprets the region's timber wars.

    by Sierra Crane-Murdoch, May 10, 2013
  • A tree-climber's tale of harvesting cones to save whitebark pines

    A tree-climber's tale of harvesting cones to save whitebark pines

    As whitebark pines in the Northern Rockies succumb to pine beetles and blister rust, hardworking climbers defy gravity to collect pine cones from canopies to supply efforts to breed more resilient and resistant trees.

    by Hal Herring, Dec 18, 2011

  • New ways to work in the woods

    The National Network of Forest Practitioners restores forests and streams while creating sustainable jobs in local communities

    by Greg Hanscom, Nov 08, 2004

  • For this logger, twisted trees are the future

    Woodworker Gordon West turns small and irregular pine logs into useful building materials in his shop near Silver City, N.M.

    by Peter Friederici, May 02, 2005

  • Weathering the academic storm

    Dan Donato, whose controversial study on salvage logging sparked an academic firestorm, talks about his research and all it provoked

    by Erin Halcomb, May 28, 2007

  • A forest in flux

    Jon R. Luoma examines old-growth forests through the eyes of the scientists who study them in The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem

    by Ewen Callaway, Aug 06, 2007
  • Face it: All forests are "sluts"

    Face it: All forests are "sluts"

    If an allegedly untouched piece of woodland is "virgin forest," what does that make a forest that’s been logged or burnt or otherwise used by humans over the years?

    by Sharon Friedman, Apr 12, 2012

  • Communities and Forests: Where People Meet theLand

    Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land, is a collection of essays, edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R Field, examining changing styles of forest management

    by Staff, Apr 17, 2006

  • Tribes look to cash in with 'tree-market' environmentalism

    The Nez Perce Tribe is trying to combat global warming – and make a few bucks – by planting trees for carbon dioxide sequestration

    by Joshua Zaffos, Jun 12, 2006

  • Trees — A different shade of green

    Increasingly, Western cities are planting trees to save energy as well as provide beauty

    by Fletcher Jacobs, Nov 13, 2006

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