Forest Journalism for a Sustainable Future
This week, we have a story focused a new organization called the North American Forest Partnership. With the goal of full transparency, I want to let you know that I was involved in the development of the partnership as a contractor for the Forest … [Continue reading]
A new study of tree populations in the continental United States, published this month in Science Advances, pokes at the conventional wisdom about climate change and its effect on forests. While ecologists have generally believed that cold-adapted … [Continue reading]
Eight years passed while a diverse group of Missoula, Montana, residents worked their way through the controversies to find compromise. And now the 13,000-acre Marshall Woods Restoration Project is finally approved and starting to take shape. The … [Continue reading]
The relationship is unexpected, but easy to comprehend: Cocaine trafficking is a direct cause of deforestation and associated losses of biodiversity in the rainforests of Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. And the repercussions are global in their … [Continue reading]
A rare and historic event in my hometown provided an unexpected lesson this week in the strength and soulfulness of wood. For months now, crews have worked to deconstruct the Missoula Mercantile, one of the oldest buildings in this western Montana … [Continue reading]