California prepares for the next burn
It’s on its way again . . . always. In a fire-prone region, can better mapping tools help municipal officials and firefighters better plan how to avoid or fight wildfires? Probably—but some homeowners aren’t happy to be told they live in harm’s way. My research for this High Country News story was supported by a [...]
Listen to “Transmutations,” an essay from Orion
It begins with a plaintive, minor-key whistle in the distance as a freight works its way up the side of the mesa toward our house.
Flight Plan
A new article in Audubon shows how scientists are trying to understand one of nature’s most amazing spectacles: how birds flock. With photography by Richard Barnes. Read the story here.
“Facing the Yuck Factor” wins reporting award from the Society of Environmental Journalists
How has the West embraced water recycling? Very (gulp) cautiously.
Blowing in the Wind
Worlds of their own, full of import, seeds are, in these astonishing images by Rob Kesseler, not unlike some new planet glimpsed through the bridge windows in a sci-fi flick. The story, with a beautiful slide show, appeared in Audubon.
