Ecologically important blazes are a crucial part of Western landscapes.
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The phrase is the linguistic equivalent of a shrug.
Are you the political equivalent of an armadillo, ant or tiger?
We can’t ‘solve’ fire any more than we can ‘solve’ hurricanes.
Naming things makes individuals out of a landscape of birds, trees and bumblebees.
A group of Oregonians searches for the disappearing Franklin’s bee.
A rant against the mindless pleasure of simply smashing something to see what happens.
How we worry about a dystopian future.
Does humanity’s poor time-depth perception explain our lack of environmental coordination?
A naturalist’s advice: pay attention
As winter approaches, the author heads to the mountains in search of light.
Paleontology and geology at Summer Lake, an ancient lake bed in Oregon, have shown the Great Basin's history of dramatic change
One ideal corner of the Northwest can’t escape environmental impacts from the rest of the world.
Let's hear it for the sagebrush solitude of the West -- especially those places
most Americans consider "worthless."
Watching sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River in Nebraska is like stepping into a time machine that takes you back to an unspoiled, wild West.
If Pepper Trail's Birdathon team had a theme song, it would be "Bat out of Hell."
To imagine what your corner of the West will be like in a warmer climate, consider how different plants and animals are at a lower elevation.
A ground-breaking agreement between ranchers and environmentalists means that Oregon’s beautiful Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is virtually cow-free.
Pepper Trail says a proposed energy corridor for the
region will chew up huge amounts of public and private land:
Comments are due by Feb. 14.
Pepper Trail warns us that we continue to tinker with
nature at our peril.
Pepper Trail says the BLM’s preferred alternative
for an Oregon forest will only increase the risk of
wildfire.
Pepper Trail says shooting barred owls is not going to
help the northern spotted owl.
Now that logging no longer provides enough money to
support Oregon’s libraries, Pepper Trail says it’s up
to citizens to decide to keep their state’s bookshelves
filled and accessible.
If we truly want to "salvage" our forests – and the
rest of our environment – we need to think beyond salvage
logging, and acknowledge that the value of dead trees cannot be
measured in board-feet alone
The writer finds salvage logging to be anything but
salvation for a forest
The writer criticizes the Bush administration for ignoring
public sentiment and rushing to log potential wilderness
areas
The writer is an avid birder, but how uncool is
that?
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