Conservation by Coalition
• American Forests • Spring, 2011
• Community-based conservation has affected participants from grassroots organizers in their tiny towns to federal bureaucrats in DC.
Burning Issues
• High Country News • November, 2008
• Late in the afternoon on the first day of summer, black bottomed thunderheads zapped lightning down onto the parched Northern california landscape.
The Next Wave of Conservation Leaders Offers Hope
• Wilderness Society • 2007-2008
• Global warming, paved-over farms and forests, swarms of off-road vehicles on ever-dwindling public lands–it’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of our planet. Take heart! A fresh generation of conservation activists is emerging from the doom and...
Eye in the Sea
• Popular Mechanics • May, 2006
• Deep-ocean animals have long evaded scientists’ elaborate probes. Now, a tough little camera catches them on video.
The Maidu Baskets of Lily Baker
• Native Peoples • Spring, 1997
• Lily Baker reaches into a clump of willows and rubs her fingers over the leaf buds swelling under the smooth gray bark. She smiles, laugh lines radiating from her eyes into the mountain air just starting to warm with spring. “This is good willow. I can start a new basket today.” she...
The Gadfly Botanist of Plumas County
• Sierra Magazine• January, 1988
• Wayne Dakan breaks away from a group hinking along Hungry Creek, a tributary of the Feather River in Northeastern California. In five resolute strides, he crosses a clearing to an old Douglas fir. Straightening his back against its eight-foot girth, he fixes his steely blue stare on a man wearing a U.S. Forest Service...
Iconoclasts
A Restless Giant
A Restless Giant • High Country News • February 20, 2012 • Environmental warrior Martin Litton is as fired up as ever.
read moreConservation by Coalition
Conservation by Coalition • American Forests • Spring, 2011 • Community-based conservation has affected participants from grassroots organizers in their tiny towns to federal bureaucrats in DC.
read moreRegrowing Borneo, tree by tree
Regrowing Borneo, tree by tree • Scientific American • Number 5, 2008 • To save orangutans, scientist Willie Smits is restoring a rain forest
read moreBurning Issues
Burning Issues • High Country News • November, 2008 • Late in the afternoon on the first day of summer, black bottomed thunderheads zapped lightning down onto the parched Northern california landscape.
read moreThe Next Wave of Conservation Leaders Offers Hope
The Next Wave of Conservation Leaders Offers Hope • Wilderness Society • 2007-2008 • Global warming, paved-over farms and forests, swarms of off-road vehicles on ever-dwindling public lands–it’s easy to feel hopeless about the future of our planet. Take heart! A fresh generation of conservation activists is emerging from the doom and...
read moreEye in the Sea
Eye in the Sea • Popular Mechanics • May, 2006 • Deep-ocean animals have long evaded scientists’ elaborate probes. Now, a tough little camera catches them on video.
read moreDesperately Seeking Silence
Desperately Seeking Silence • Audubon • May-June, 2000 • All Gordon Hempton wants is one square inch of silence.
read moreThe Maidu Baskets of Lily Baker
The Maidu Baskets of Lily Baker • Native Peoples • Spring, 1997 • Lily Baker reaches into a clump of willows and rubs her fingers over the leaf buds swelling under the smooth gray bark. She smiles, laugh lines radiating from her eyes into the mountain air just starting to warm with spring. “This is good willow. I can start a new basket today.” she...
read moreThe Gadfly Botanist of Plumas County
The Gadfly Botanist of Plumas County • Sierra Magazine• January, 1988 • Wayne Dakan breaks away from a group hinking along Hungry Creek, a tributary of the Feather River in Northeastern California. In five resolute strides, he crosses a clearing to an old Douglas fir. Straightening his back against its eight-foot girth, he fixes his steely blue stare on a man wearing a U.S. Forest Service...
read more