Results for keyword: forest fires
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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 12, 2007 -
Smoke alarm
Wildfires across the West release surprising amounts of mercury
by Kat Leitzell, Nov 09, 2007 -
Nobody likes regulation, but look where we’re moving
Tom Arrandale says Americans are getting sick and tired of paying to save houses from forest fires when those houses are built – and rebuilt – right next to forests in fire-prone areas.
by Tom Arrandale, Oct 01, 2007 -
Two weeks in the West
Health insurance – and the lack of it – in the West; Larry Craig, Burning Man, and parts of Montana go up in flames; Wyoming booms and house prices are up, but the kids are still leaving in droves; new Border Patrol duds debut.
by Jonathan Thompson, Sep 17, 2007 -
When smoke gets in your life
Alan Kesselheim misses the summers of the past, when Western skies were blue and clear and not blurred and choked with smoke and ash.
by Alan Kesselheim, Aug 31, 2007 -
The inevitable fires next time
Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
by Rocky Barker, Aug 31, 2007 -
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 -
Brave 'yellowbellies' served the West well
In Smoke Jumping on the Western Fire Line, Mark Matthews tells the story of the conscientious objectors who pioneered smokejumping to fight Western forest fires during World War II
by Ray Ring, Oct 16, 2006 -
Where there's fire, there's global warming
Climate scientist Anthony Westerling is working to illuminate the connection between rising global temperatures and the increasing ferocity of the West’s forest fires
by Matt Jenkins, Aug 07, 2006 -
'You've got me wrong': A Conversation with Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth
Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth talks about how his agency has changed over the years, defending current forest management policies as well as the Service’s dealings with the energy industry
by Paul Larmer and Greg Hanscom, Aug 07, 2006
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