Cheatgrass

Cheatgrass

‘One of the most significant ecological crises facing land managers in the arid West’ A report published in January, Cheatgrass Invasions: History, Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, by Western Watershed Projects is the source of the above quote....
Burned Redwoods Recover From 2020 Fire

Burned Redwoods Recover From 2020 Fire

In August 2020, the CZU Lightning Complex fire burned through Big Basin Redwoods State Park near Santa Cruz, California, consuming all of the foliage on some of the oldest redwoods. “It was shocking…. It really seemed like most of the trees were going to die,”...
How Homes Can Survive Wildfire

How Homes Can Survive Wildfire

While there’s no historical evidence that Nero “fiddled while Rome burned,” there’s been plenty of fiddling in our forests while homes and communities burn in the American West. Jack Cohen has not been fiddling. His decades-long research at the Forest Service Missoula...
Paying the Piper

Paying the Piper

In the 20th century, the Forest Service promised to build post-war America with logs cut from national forests. Logging would be sustainable, it promised, with no more timber removed in any decade than could be cut forever thereafter. Logging doubled in the 1940s,...