Results for keyword: wildfires
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The San Francisco Peaks will never be the same
An abandoned campfire is apparently to blame for the inferno now consuming the mountains outside Flagstaff, Ariz.
by Robyn Slayton-Martin, Jun 29, 2010 -
Fighting fire and memories
A seasoned Forest Service firefighter remembers Colorado's South Canyon Fire and the lives lost in it 16 years ago.
by Mary Emerick, Jun 11, 2010 -
Manufactured homes for the birds
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 -
The West’s wacky weather
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, May 12, 2008 -
Seeds of change
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, Oct 15, 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 -
West’s forests will never be the same
Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched grasslands.
by Paul VanDevelder, Sep 24, 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
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