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  • Of salvage logging and salvation

    If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be measured in board-feet alone

    by Pepper Trail, Dec 25, 2006

  • The wisdom of the ground troops

    If the folks who run the Forest Service listened to the wisdom of their people on the ground, disasters like the Biscuit Fire logging project would be less likely to occur

    by Paul Larmer, May 16, 2005
  • Fast Times at California's Petroleum High

    Fast Times at California's Petroleum High

    A day in the life of the U.S.'s first high school academy devoted to oil production.

    by Jeremy Miller, Feb 13, 2011
  • Rural California schoolkids learn from fire-damaged forest

    Rural California schoolkids learn from fire-damaged forest

    A rural California school builds an innovative curriculum around a nearby forest and the fire that burned it down in 2007.

    by Jane Braxton Little, Feb 15, 2011

  • Energy workers, union members protest drilling

    In Wyoming, oil and gas workers and the Wyoming AFL-CIO have joined environmentalists, ranchers and homeowners in protesting the sale of energy leases in the Wyoming Range of Bridger-Teton National Forest

    by Allison Gerfin, Jun 26, 2006

  • Two Weeks in the West

    Dying aspens; healthier Gila trout; salmon blamed for electric bills; greens and motorheads reach wilderness entente; last big anti-Grand Staircase lawsuit tossed out; Southern Nevada Water Authority buys Warm Springs Ranch; Data: Water can soak you; and

    by Staff, Aug 07, 2006
  • Not quite so SAD

    Not quite so SAD

    Sudden aspen decline appears to be slowing in Colorado, but the trees' glory days may be past.

    by Cally Carswell, Nov 21, 2010
  • Is wildfire always a question of when?

    Is wildfire always a question of when?

    An innkeeper remembers the fires that roared through her beloved Chiricahua Mountains.

    by Susan Nunn, Jul 20, 2011

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