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Feature
When Camron Stone realized that an oak forest was about to be bulldozed by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, he started fighting back.
by Emily Green,
May 21, 2012
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Current
The connection between bark beetle outbreaks and Western forest fires is more complicated than it might appear.
by Gail Wells,
May 14, 2012
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Editor's Note
The sometimes-scruffy remnants of woodland that edge our urban neighborhoods have psychological as well as ecological value.
by Paul Larmer,
May 14, 2012
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Feature
by Emily Green,
May 14, 2012
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Feature
In Northwest Mexico, rancher Carlos Robles Elías works hard to make his Rancho El Aribabi into an oasis of biodiversity, despite the challenges of a sagging economy and rampant drug cartel violence.
by Tony Davis,
May 07, 2012
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Writers on the Range
A proposal to reopen slaughterhouses in the U.S. for old, unwanted, abandoned or wild horses is a cruel and foolish idea.
by Mae Lee Sun,
May 02, 2012
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Sidebar
Maps, photos and text describe some of the federal and private, nonprofit work in Northwest Mexico to preserve imperiled landscapes and a rich diversity of plants and animals.
by Ray Ring, Tony Davis and Talli Nauman,
Apr 30, 2012
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Editor's Note
Despite a constant lack of money and the threat of drug-cartel violence, dedicated border conservationists work to preserve the landscape they love.
by Ray Ring,
Apr 30, 2012
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Sidebar
A map with numbers corresponding to highlighted conservation areas described in a sidebar article
by Cindy Tolle, Tutuaca Mountain School,
Apr 30, 2012
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Writers on the Range
Some hunters claim wolves are killing too many deer and elk in northwestern Montana, but the facts indicate otherwise -- although those facts are easily lost in all the emotional rhetoric.
by Christina Nealson,
Apr 26, 2012
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Writers on the Range
The controversy that flared when a trapper posted a photo of himself with a dying wolf proves that Idaho and other Western states are incapable of managing wolves without the help of the Endangered Species Act.
by Michael J. Robinson,
Apr 25, 2012
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Writers on the Range
When a trapper posted photos of himself with a dying wolf on Facebook, the resulting angry, hate-filled uproar on the Internet accomplished nothing useful.
by Erin Zwiener,
Apr 24, 2012
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Current
The intrepid scientific grunts behind the Plate Boundary Observatory roam the West keeping tabs on weird-looking far-flung GPS stations.
by Marian Lyman Kirst,
Apr 18, 2012
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Writers on the Range
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 13, 2012
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Multimedia
The world is getting noisier. Should we worry?
by Cally Carswell,
Mar 28, 2012
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