As we confront our new normal, we’re still searching for a society designed to protect people I’ve covered a few wildfire stories over the years as a newspaperman living and working in Cochise County and Tucson, Ariz.; in El Paso reporting on places like ...
11 Sep 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
Kangaroo Island was home to 50,000 koalas before the bushfire crisis, and workers at its wildlife park have focused on nursing injured animals back to life We stand at the base of a gum tree looking up into its leafy canopy. Plastic laundry baskets, the t ...
11 Jun 2020 - Anastasia Safioleas
Scientist Dominick DellaSala says that when it comes to forest fires, we’ve got it all wrong July 2015: On the tail of back-to-back, historically severe fire seasons, drought-stricken Oregon has lit up once again as fires began raging across the state a m ...
20 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
Climate scientist Susan Kaspari talks about our black carbon footprint As snowpack levels hit record lows, and wildfire seasons hit record highs, a geological sciences professor in Washington is studying the connection between forest fires and accelerated ...
27 Feb 2015 - Emily Green
-Acres of land in the Oregon State Forest system: 821,000-Percent of Oregon forestland owned by the state: 3-Percent of Oregon forestland owned by the federal government: 59-Dollars budgeted for firefighting by the U.S. Forest Service: 1 billion-Square mil ...
7 Aug 2014 - Street Roots Staff