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A father of a biracial child listens to the casually racist jokes of his rural Colorado neighbors.
The joys – and hardships – of outdoor physical work take a toll.
Her brush with homelessness gives Jane Goetze the background to offer some wry advice.
Southern California wants to use desalination to increase its water supply, but critics think the idea needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
California is enthusiastic about creating “water banks” to help the state’s cities weather future droughts.
Pepper Trail, a wildlife biologist in Oregon, says that this is not the time to log our way out of wildfire threats in the West.
Gordon Gregory watched the house he’d spent four years building go up in flames, then had to flee a rental home when another fire bore down on him and his family near the smoky town of Paradise.
California fire victim barely escapes
Pepper Trail says the BLM’s preferred alternative for an Oregon forest will only increase the risk of wildfire.
President Bush says the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and Initiative were needed to fight wildfire, but several years into the new rules, critics question whether the changes they brought were helpful or even necessary
Ecologist Charlie Crisafulli has spent twenty-five years studying life on Mount St. Helens, especially the boreal toad, which is in decline almost everywhere else, but thriving at the volcano
Ray Ring says California and wildfire are like co-stars in a bad Hollywood movie
