Items by Jane Braxton-Little

Development plans test a decade-old conservation deal
Development plans test a decade-old conservation deal
Were concessions to protect undeveloped land in California worth it?
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 7, 2019 From the print edition
Below Mount Shasta, a fight burbles over bottled water
Below Mount Shasta, a fight burbles over bottled water
Selling water to Nestlé, Crystal Geyser and others could strain aquifers.
Jane Braxton Little May 28, 2018 From the print edition
California plans to log its drought-killed trees
California plans to log its drought-killed trees
Cutting down dead trees may not reduce wildfire risk.
Jane Braxton Little Aug. 8, 2016 From the print edition
Keeping the dust down in California’s Owens Valley
Keeping the dust down in California’s Owens Valley
A civil engineer battles Los Angeles over its air pollution legacy.
Jane Braxton Little March 2, 2015 From the print edition
Environmental warrior Martin Litton is still fighting at 95
Environmental warrior Martin Litton is still fighting at 95
Martin Litton, who has spent his entire life fighting to preserve Western landscapes, is still battling to save California’s giant sequoias.
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 29, 2012 From the print edition
California tribe competes with the state to restore its homeland
California tribe competes with the state to restore its homeland
The Mountain Maidu Indians and the state Department of Fish and Game are both seeking control of California's Humbug Valley.
Jane Braxton Little Sept. 7, 2011 From the print edition
Rural California schoolkids learn from fire-damaged forest
Rural California schoolkids learn from fire-damaged forest
A rural California school builds an innovative curriculum around a nearby forest and the fire that burned it down in 2007.
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 16, 2011 From the print edition
New world, new canvas
New world, new canvas
Joxe Mallea-Olaetxe traces Basque history in arborglyphs on Western aspen trees.
Jane Braxton-Little June 11, 2010 From the print edition
Notes from the (water) underground
Research hydrologist Gordon Grant is fascinated by the groundwater in the Pacific Northwest.
Jane Braxton Little Jan. 16, 2009 From the print edition
Burning issues
Controversial forestry scientist Tom Bonnicksen believes increased logging is necessary to fight global warming.
Jane Braxton Little Nov. 10, 2008 From the print edition
Saving the Sierra, tale by tale
Independent radio producers Catherine Stifter and jesikah maria ross are trying to help the Sierra Nevada by preserving the stories of the people who live there
Jane Braxton Little May 14, 2007 From the print edition
This land is my land — really
The federal government’s plan to sell Forest Service land was put together so fast it includes 12 acres that I own.
Jane Braxton Little Opinion Essay April 17, 2006
Timberlands up for grabs
As the West’s privately owned timberlands go up for sale, small towns like Glenwood, Wash., are working to buy local forests and manage them for the good of the community
Jane Braxton Little Jan. 23, 2006 From the print edition
'Sticking around' for an alpine valley
Attilio Genasci has devoted himself to preserving land in Sierra Valley, Calif., where he has lived and farmed for 96 years
Jane Braxton Little Nov. 28, 2005 From the print edition
Saving Maidu culture, one seedling at a time
Lorena Gorbet, a Mountain Maidu Indian, has dedicated her life to saving her tribal culture through forest management in the Feather River area of Northern California
Jane Braxton Little April 4, 2005 From the print edition
Resort homes threaten scenic Mono Lake
An inholding in California’s Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area may soon be the site of a resort-home development
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 21, 2005 From the print edition
New forest plan leaves owls in a lurch
The Clinton-era Sierra Nevada Framework is being dismantled under the Bush administration, and California spotted owls, denied protection as endangered species, may pay the price
Jane Braxton Little May 12, 2003 From the print edition
Timber proposal undercuts Quincy Library plan
Members of California’s Quincy Library Group are fighting Forest Service plans for logging the Plumas and Lassen national forests.
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 17, 2003 From the print edition
What we don't know about wildfire can hurt us
Jane Braxton Little Opinion Essay Nov. 1, 2002
Can green-certified lumber make it?
Some foresters who are using responsible environmental practices in order to be "green-certified" are disappointed by the lack of return for their admirable efforts.
Jane Braxton Little June 24, 2002 From the print edition
A new world in the woods
In many Western communities, forest workers are quietly converting their skills from industrial logging to forest restoration.
Jane Braxton Little April 1, 2002 From the print edition
Pesky pike persist
Exotic pike have reappeared in California's Lake Davis, just 18 months after the lake was poisoned in a controversial plan, and now the state is considering underwater explosions to keep the pike from heading downstream.
Jane Braxton Little Dec. 17, 2001 From the print edition
Quincy collaboration heads to court
The Quincy Library Group plans a lawsuit to challenge the Sierra Nevada Framework, which the group says has "killed" its own collaborative plan for national forest management.
Jane Braxton Little Dec. 17, 2001 From the print edition
Forestry nominee: Rey of light or death Rey?
Supporters call Mark Rey, Bush's nominee for undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment, a forest management expert, but wary environmentalists liken him to Darth Vader and Machiavelli.
Jane Braxton Little July 30, 2001 From the print edition
The greening of the Nevada Test Site
The Nevada Test Site - notorious for decades of nuclear bomb-testing - is now home to gentler science, including work on alternative energy and the greenhouse effect, and on cleaning up the site's radioactive contamination.
Jane Braxton Little July 2, 2001 From the print edition
Green power threatens the Black Rock
Some critics say a proposed geothermal power plant threatens the newly designated Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area in northwestern Nevada.
Jane Braxton Little April 9, 2001 From the print edition
A new plan frames the Sierra Nevada
The Forest Service has released its final plan for 11 national forests in California's Sierra Nevada, but the timber industry is already planning to appeal the Sierra Framework.
Jane Braxton Little Feb. 12, 2001 From the print edition
A desert state axes water planning
Nevada conservationists are stunned by the recent dismantling of the state's Division of Water Planning, largely due to ranchers, miners and rural officials who resented the recommendations of its recently revised state water plan.
Jane Braxton Little Nov. 20, 2000 From the print edition
Dust settles in Owens Valley
Los Angeles has agreed to return some water to parched Owens Valley and to begin restoring Owens Lake, which was turned into an empty dust bowl to quench the thirst of L.A.
Jane Braxton Little April 24, 2000 From the print edition
Quincy experiment to begin
The Quincy Library Group sees its controversial forest plan put into action when the Forest Service doubles logging on California's Plumas, Lassen and Tahoe national forests while protecting habitat for the northern spotted owl.
Jane Braxton Little Sept. 13, 1999 From the print edition
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