2010 and earlier

Community Advocate

American Forests • Winter 2010

Lynn Jungwirth’s tireless efforts have made the voice of rural communities part of the forest policy dialogue.

Art in the Aspens

Utne • November/December 2010

Beautiful Basque tree carvings tell tales of adventure.

Clean Energy from Dirty Water

Scientific American • July 2010

California cities are pumping their treated wastewater underground to create electricity

Shangri-La

Audubon • March/April 2010

An hour from the smog and concrete of Los Angeles, a quarter-million-acre oasis, bursting with rare and unusual species...

Ensuring a Timberland Legacy

American Forests • Winter 2009

Across the country, communities are uniting to protect the forests they hold dear.

The Carbon Equation

Nature Conservancy • Winter 2009

Can forests save us from climate change?

Regrowing Borneo, tree by tree

Scientific American • Number 5, 2008

To save orangutans, scientist Willie Smits is restoring a rain forest.

Baywatch

Audubon • November/December 2008

One year ago a major spill in San Francisco Bay marked the latest insult to a waterway...

Shade Trees: The Bottom Line

California Trees • Fall 2008

What’s a shade tree worth? Can a single strategically placed tree actually reduce energy use and save homeowners hard-earned dollars?

Conservation’s New Conversation

American Forests • Summer 2008

In the face of unrelenting Development: How to keep forests in forest?

Dodging a Bullet

Audubon • January/February 2008

Just before Easter last year a female California condor soared across the international border from Mexico into the United States.

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.

Treasure Island

Audubon • September/October, 2006

A group of dedicated scientists hassucceeded in reviving the health of fragile islands off the coasts of California and Mexico

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.

Timberlands in Turmoil

American Forests • Winter 2006

As timber companies divest, carefully managed forestland is up for grabs, and it portends an invisible-but staggering-crisis for the U.S.

China Power

OnEarth • Winter 2004

How do you bring clean energy to 1.25 billion people?

Erika Zavaleta, still life with athlete

Nature Conservancy • Spring 2004

In her quest to learn how life works, Erika Zavaleta would rather not do it sitting still.

Time Line Bristlecone Pines

American Forests • Winter 2004

Twisted with time, unspoiled and austere, the planets oldest living inhabitants offer insights...

The Paradox of Wildland Fire

Wilderness Society • 2003-2004

We who love wilderness face a daunting dilemma. Every Summer we watch smoke clouds rise...

Desperately Seeking Silence

Audubon • May/June 2000

All Gordon Hempton wants is one square inch of silence.

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

Land of the Pampered Plantation

American Forests • January/February 1991

In Japan, forests are grown as crops, and timber management is a ritual.

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

2010 and earlier Magazine Articles

Jane Braxton Little