When Camron Stone realized that an oak forest was about to be bulldozed by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, he started fighting back.
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May 14, 2012
When Camron Stone realized that a nearby riparian forest was about to be bulldozed by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, he tried to fight back. Also, the skinny on land grabs by state lawmakers, turning diesel into fertilizer, new science of beetle kill and wildfires, and more
Feature
Editor's Note
The sometimes-scruffy remnants of woodland that edge our urban neighborhoods have psychological as well as ecological value.
Current
Some Western states are rekindling the Sagebrush Rebellion and demanding ownership of federal lands -- but it's not just about local control.
The conservative, golf-playing retirees of Queen Valley, Ariz., are determined to stop a giant copper mine.
Canadian farmer Gary Lewis, fed up with the failures of synthetic fertilizer, has invented a system called Bio-Agtive Emissions Technology, a tractor add-on that recycles diesel emissions into fertilizer.
The connection between bark beetle outbreaks and Western forest fires is more complicated than it might appear.
Essays
Will all of a kayaker's memories of Washington's White Salmon River change once the river changes, now that Condit Dam is gone?
Book Reviews
In Rez Life, novelist David Treuer takes a nonfiction look at his own life as an Ojibwe Indian on the reservation.
In Contents May Have Shifted, Pam Houston writes about a writer’s journeys, both physical and emotional
Dear Friends
HCN online editor Stephanie Paige Ogburn and managing editor Jodi Peterson attend digital media workshops; Danielle Venton gets public radio job; Denver Nicks writes a book; visitors; correction.
Letters
A sampling of what you had to say
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- Observe the BLM’s displacement
- Pay to play: Interior Secretary’s old clients spend big and profit bigly
- Mauna Kea telescope project halted after months of protests
- Elizabeth Warren’s claim to Cherokee ancestry is a form of violence
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