I feel that Jane Braxton Little told a very incomplete story of how fire danger relates to beetle-killed trees (“Forest fatalities,” HCN, 8/8/16). Granted, after the needles have fallen off beetle-killed trees, they are less susceptible to forest fires than live trees, but the process of needles falling off takes about four years. Then, about […]
John Marshall
Posted inMay 27, 2013: Haywired
Saving the real old growth
I read with interest Nathan Rice’s excellent article “A New Forest Paradigm” (HCN, 4/29/13). I was around in the 1970s, when the last of the old-growth giants were being felled in Oregon and Washington. I deplored what was happening then and cheered any means of saving those venerable trees, some of which were over 500 […]
Posted inSeptember 6, 1993: On their own: Eagles make a comeback
American declared war on … Utah
‘American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War’ by Carole Gallagher shows the victims’ side of nuclear testing. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline American declared war on … Utah.