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Public officials – and even homeowners – are beginning to accept the inevitability of wildfires in the Golden State.
by Peter Friederici ,
Jun 05, 2009
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Zoologist David Olson and his colleagues are trying to create artificial cacti to house the rare coastal cactus wren, whose cholla cactus habitat is being threatened by California’s recent wildfires.
by Joseph Sorrentino,
Jul 18, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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In her new novel, The Berkeley Pit, Dorothy Bryant
intertwines the stories of two very different Berkeleys: The
California college town during the ‘60s, and the famously
toxic open-pit mine in Butte, Mont.
by Tanya Lee,
Jun 23, 2008
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Graham Chisholm believes that an agreement involving open
space, a large housing development and condor habitat on
California’s Tejon Ranch is a “true conservation
victory.”
by Graham Chisholm,
Jul 16, 2008
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Squirrels vs. Santa Monica; Baby goes to rehab; crows and
carriers; Maricopa County is booming big-time; Julie MacDonald vs.
the Interior Department; boat horns vs. coyotes in
Oxnard.
by Betsy Marston,
Apr 16, 2007
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Judge Jim Redden is right to push the Bush administration
on salmon restoration, but fish may end up faring as poorly in
courtrooms as San Francisco’s schoolchildren did after
well-intentioned decisions on busing.
by John Mecklin,
Jan 22, 2007
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Kern County, Calif., is trying to prevent Los Angeles
sludge from entering the county, where it is used to fertilize
farmland, and the resulting stink is raising all kinds of questions
about how we handle human waste
by Matt Jenkins,
Jul 16, 2008
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Six decades after Friant Dam killed off the San Joaquin
River’s spring-run chinook, the Natural Resources Defense
Council and the Friant Water Users Authority are working with the
federal government to restore both the fish and the river
by Matt Jenkins,
Dec 11, 2006
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Brian Peterson considers himself the interim governor of
the State of Jefferson, an area in Northern California and southern
Oregon that has been talking about secession since the early
1940s
by Emma Brown,
Nov 13, 2006
