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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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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate
the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched
grasslands.
by Paul VanDevelder,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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Rocky Barker warns us that the new West is a world of
inevitable, long-lasting and increasing forest fires.
by Rocky Barker,
Jul 16, 2008
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Bill Sniffin warns that Wyoming’s Shoshone National
Forest is ready to go up in flames.
by Bill Sniffin,
Jul 16, 2008
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The West’s weather is full of surprises this spring,
with snowstorms, windstorms, rain and wildfires all happening at
the same time.
by Jonathan Thompson,
Jul 16, 2008
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Land managers working on post-fire restoration in Utah
have to battle invasive cheatgrass in their efforts to bring back
the native sagebrush.
by Eve Rickert,
Jul 16, 2008
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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,
Jul 16, 2008
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In Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, good intentions are
responsible for the introduction of exotic buffelgrass – but
all the good intentions in the world may not be enough to save the
desert now that this invasive and fire-prone plant is
spreading
by Michelle Nijhuis,
Jul 16, 2008
