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Results for keyword: wildfire

  • Why the Southwest is burning

    Why the Southwest is burning

    This season’s wildfires are caused by three things: Climate change-induced drought, bureaucratic blindness and old-fashioned human folly.

    by William deBuys, Jun 30, 2011
  • High Country Views: Fire in the foothills

    High Country Views: Fire in the foothills

    The aftermath of Boulder's destructive Fourmile Canyon fire.

    by Cally Carswell, Sep 26, 2010
  • California prepares for the next burn

    California prepares for the next burn

    Public officials – and even homeowners – are beginning to accept the inevitability of wildfires in the Golden State.

    by Peter Friederici , Jun 05, 2009

  • We thought we were safe

    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.

    by Gordon Gregory, Jul 14, 2008

  • We thought we were safe

    California fire victim barely escapes

    by Gordon Gregory, Jul 10, 2008

  • The BLM plays with fire in Oregon

    Pepper Trail says the BLM’s preferred alternative for an Oregon forest will only increase the risk of wildfire.

    by Pepper Trail, Oct 08, 2007

  • The War on 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

    by Kathie Durbin, Apr 17, 2006

  • Life rises from the ashes, in the form of a humble toad

    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

    by David B. Williams, Jul 25, 2005

  • Fire policy in the form of Smokey and the Bandit

    Ray Ring says California and wildfire are like co-stars in a bad Hollywood movie

    by Ray Ring, Nov 17, 2003

  • Searching for the true causes of the West’s fire problems

    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.

    by Pepper Trail, Aug 11, 2003
 

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