by Guest Author | Jun 12, 2023 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Dana Johnson, Writers on the Range We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want? That’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. They want to enter designated Wilderness in order to drill permanent anchors into...
by Guest Author | Jun 4, 2023 | Fire Truth, Guest Author, Science Notes
by Andy Kerr As public lands conservationists continue their fight to save the last of the mature and old-growth forests for the benefit of this and future generations, we must not forget the preforests. In 1988, fires in Yellowstone National Park caused the media to...
by Guest Author | Apr 25, 2023 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Erica Rosenberg, Writers On The Range In 2017, the public lost 1,470 acres of wilderness-quality land at the base of Mount Sopris near Aspen, Colorado. For decades, people had hiked and hunted on the Sopris land, yet the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) handed it...
by Guest Author | Feb 28, 2023 | Briefly
by Susan J. Tweit Say the word “dendrochronology,” and what comes to mind? Perhaps a tree cross-section showing concentric circles of annual rings, with arrows pointing to the rings from years that mark historical human events. But there is so much more to the science...
by Guest Author | Dec 17, 2022 | Guest Author
When Congress passed the 2009 Omnibus Public Land Management Act, one of Barack Obama’s major public lands initiatives, it included a provision for a new program of management of national forests that promised “collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration” of...
