High Country News http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 6. Bark beetle kill leads to more severe fires, right? Well, maybe http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/bark-beetle-kill-leads-to-bigger-fires-right-well-maybe The connection between bark beetle outbreaks and Western forest fires is more complicated than it might appear. No publisher Gail Wells fir crown fires, Monica Turner, salvage logging, Forest Service lodgepole pines Hot Times Western forests Western wildfires climate change spruce Bark beetle outbreaks drought 2012-07-16T17:54:22Z News Article The delights of urban wilderness http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.8/the-delights-of-urban-wilderness The sometimes-scruffy remnants of woodland that edge our urban neighborhoods have psychological as well as ecological value. No publisher Paul Larmer sediment dumps children and nature Los Angeles County Flood Control District hiking Southern California ecology dams and water projects coast live oaks Western forests Urban woodlands Camron Stone 2012-05-09T21:25:41Z News Article Those buck-tooth dammers are back, big-time http://www.hcn.org/wotr/those-buck-tooth-dammers-are-back-big-time Beavers return to northern Colorado, improving aquatic diversity. No publisher Chuck Bolsinger Western forests ecology Chuck Bolsinger Sam Bixler beaver colonies Beavers wildlife biologists Pennock Creek Colorado State University forestry camp Dave Bolger beaver dams Western landscape Colorado Rocky Mountains friendship 2011-10-04T17:09:16Z News Article West’s forests will never be the same http://www.hcn.org/wotr/17271 Paul VanDevelder warns that climate change could devastate the West’s forests, leaving nothing behind but parched grasslands. No publisher Paul VanDevelder Paul VanDevelder global warming Western forests wildfires drought conifers 2010-02-05T09:44:39Z News Article Two Weeks in the West http://www.hcn.org/issues/327/16448 Dying aspens; healthier Gila trout; salmon blamed for electric bills; greens and motorheads reach wilderness entente; last big anti-Grand Staircase lawsuit tossed out; Southern Nevada Water Authority buys Warm Springs Ranch; Data: Water can soak you; and No publisher Staff News Briefs Aspen die-off Western forests forest health trees Phil Kemp Dolores Ranger District Gila trout U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stream restoration New Mexico Council of Trout Unlimited endangered fish threatened fish recreational fishing Cathy 2011-11-21T23:26:19Z News Article Burning down the house http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16265 Despite the promises of the Healthy Forests Act, the Bush administration has proposed sweeping cuts to community fire programs in the West No publisher Sarah Gilman Politics Budget Fire George W. Bush Healthy Forests Act fire prevention forest fires firefighters wildfires The Wilderness Society Tom Fry Forest Service national forests wildland-urban interface federal budget thinning Western forests State Fire Assistance Prog 2011-11-10T23:40:12Z News Article