Results for keyword: forest fires
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Living on Glacial Time
Climate change is altering the lands we call home in ways we'd never imagined.
by Ana Maria Spagna, Sep 13, 2009 -
Timothy Egan's Western odyssey
New York Times correspondent and National Book Award winner Timothy Egan talks about his enduring love for the West.
by John Moir, Sep 11, 2009 -
Nostalgia for the front lines
A forest fire near her home in Alaska takes a former firefighter back 20 years, to the summers she spent battling blazes all across the West.
by Teresa Sundmark, Jul 16, 2009 -
Forestry from the inside
The newspaper columns collected in Mary Stuever’s The Forester’s Log give an insider’s view of the challenges facing Western forests today.
by Irene Wanner, Jun 05, 2009 -
Up in FLAME
Proposed bill calls for separate "catastrophic wildfire" fund
by Evelyn Schlatter, Apr 16, 2008 -
Finding beauty in devastation
In his richly illustrated book Boy Wonder & the Big Burns, Montana photographer Chris Peterson finds beauty in the aftermath of fire – and in his relationship with his autistic son.
by Ray Ring, Mar 17, 2008 -
Don’t starve the Forest Service
Former Montana Congressman Pat Williams warns that the Bush administration is playing with fire – literally – in cutting the Forest Service’s budget.
by Pat Williams, Mar 03, 2008 -
Standing outside, late, in a charcoal forest
by Alan S. Kesselheim, Feb 04, 2008 -
You can’t stop nature
Pepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with nature at our peril.
by Pepper Trail, Dec 10, 2007 -
A former Hot Shot looks at the West’s wildfires
Lincoln Bramwell looks back on years of firefighting and concludes that it’s just not a good idea for people to keep building houses in forests.
by Lincoln Bramwell, Nov 26, 2007
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