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No Smokey
A mountain bike expedition into Mexico's Sierra San Pedro Martir reveals what healthy fire-adapted forests look like—and what a century of fire suppression has cost us.Read more → -
Ecosystem Management vs. Forestry
A contentious meeting with the Forest Service over logging 120 ancient trees at Black Mountain reveals the conflict between traditional forestry and modern ecosystem science.Read more → -
What Good is Old Growth?
The pile of cut and stacked logs towered thirty feet over our heads as my colleagues and I diligently counted the minuscule rings. Two hundred and fifty rings—more than qualifying this stand as an Old Growth Forest.Read more →