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The Value of a Good Checklist

By John Rieger / On November 5th, 2014
The best-laid plans of mice and men may go astray, but a checklist still helps.
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To Kill a Redwood

By Richard Waring / On August 19th, 2014
Bull Creek undercut the bank in many places, causing mature redwood to fall. Photograph courtesy Professor Paul Zinke.
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Calculating How Fast Trees and Forests Grow

By Joe Landsberg / On August 11th, 2014
That might sound like a rather dry, technological subject, but it is, obviously, quite important in relation to wood production from forests. It’s also important to be able to calculate tree growth rates so we can estimate how fast forests can absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it as carbon.
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Heart of Wildness

By Cristina Eisenberg / On July 1st, 2014
The Crown of the Continent, as seen in Montana. Photo credit: Cristina Eisenberg
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Wolves in a Tangled Bank

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 14th, 2014
Elk browsing aspens in Yellowstone National Park. Photo by Cristina Eisenberg.
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Why Our Forests Need Fire, Not Salvage Logging

By Dominick A. DellaSala / On December 13th, 2013
For over two decades, I have studied forests from Oregon's amazing coastal rainforests to the fire-adapted forests of the West. In dry forests, there are three issues that reoccur every fire season: (1) forests will burn regardless of what we do; (2) politicians will propose unchecked post-fire "salvage" logging, even in national parks, as a quick fix; and (3) scientists will continue to document the incredible regeneration that takes place after fires and how post-fire logging disrupts forest renewal.

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