Forest Journalism for a Sustainable Future
Fire has returned to New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, and with it the fire birds that disappeared in the 1980s because of habitat loss. New Jersey Audubon started reintroducing bobwhite quail to a Pine Island cranberry farm in 2015, toting … [Continue reading]
For hundreds of millennia, humans have depended on wood as a basic but reliable source of fuel. Today efforts to grow that dependence in the face of an evolving energy landscape are widespread. But they're also contentious. The debate over … [Continue reading]
The production of cross-laminated timber, or CLT, has the potential to create significant job growth in the Pacific Northwest, according to a study published in July 2017 by Oregon BEST, a Portland-based nonprofit. CLT is made of layers of glued … [Continue reading]
Are the 2017 wildfire season and its long, miserable, smoke-choked days the new normal? University of Montana journalism professor Joe Eaton recently sat down with UM fire ecology professor Philip Higuera to explore the reasons why the West is … [Continue reading]
Wildfires continue to burn vast scars across the West, but the political blowback has already begun, with politicians from several states blaming environmentalists for the summer of 2017’s devastation. But scientists at the National Weather … [Continue reading]