2011 - 2014 Magazine Articles

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Dust Up
Dust Up

Audubon • December 2014

As Los Angeles officials reconsider how to settle the Owens Lake dust, conservationists are concerned about how wildlife might fare.

The Humbug Partnership
The Humbug Partnership

Boom Magazine • October 2014

On 29 June 2004, Lorena Gorbet stood before a newly assembled council of state and federal agencies and made a bold request

Investigate Alien Life – Without Leaving Earth
Investigate Alien Life – Without Leaving Earth

Popular Science • September 2014

Led by a NASA scientist, students hike into Lassen Volcanic National Park to sample hydrothermal waters.

Committing to Collaboration
Committing to Collaboration

SE Journal • Fall 2014

How Two Freelancers Pulled Off A Cross-Pacific Partnership.

D-Con Begone
D-Con Begone

Audubon • July/August 2014

California bans rat poisons that are killing the state’s birds, but the fight isn’t over.

Sharing the Air
Sharing the Air

Defenders • Spring 2014

Wind energy is crucial to battling climate change. Can it expand without harming eagles?

Return to Humbug Valley
Return to Humbug Valley

Chico News • March 2014

An unlikely partnership leads to the Mountain Maidu reclaiming a piece of their ancestral homeland.

The Wolf Called OR7
The Wolf Called OR7

Appalachia • Winter/Spring 2014

The first in California since 1924

How One Town Is Saving Its Teens
How One Town Is Saving Its Teens

YES! Magazine • Fall 2013

It took an outpouring of heartbreak to begin to heal from Indian Valley’s suicide epidemic.

DustBuster
DustBuster

Audubon • September/October, 2013

Two hundred miles north of Los Angeles, windswept Owens Lake was the victim of one of the most audacious water grabs in the history of the American West.

 

Contaminated Forests: Management after Chernobyl and Fukushima
Contaminated Forests: Management after Chernobyl and Fukushima

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists • August 2013

Deep in the forested mountains of Fukushima Prefecture, in the town of Kawauchi, a woman in an apron and skirt stands...

At Chernobyl, danger lurks in the trees
At Chernobyl, danger lurks in the trees

The Daily Climate • June 24, 2013

For 27 years, forests around Chernobyl have been absorbing radioactive elements.

Radiant Wildlands
Radiant Wildlands

Earth Island Journal • Spring 2013

Addressing Postnuclear Radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima

A Tale of Two Forests
A Tale of Two Forests

Environmental Health Perspectives • March 2013

Addressing Postnuclear Radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima

Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams

Audubon • November/December, 2012

Audubon groups are saving birds from open-ended PVC mining stakes.

The Missing Link
The Missing Link

Nature Conservancy • Issue 4, 2012

The race to protect one of North America’s most crucial-and vulnerable-wildlife corridors.

The Future of Urban Forests in California’s Cap & Trade Market
The Future of Urban Forests in California’s Cap & Trade Market

California Trees • June, 2012

Wherever trees grow, they are quietly performing a miracle.

The Long View
The Long View

Audubon • June, 2012

Building habitat along agricultural edges.

How Has Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster Affected The Environment?
How Has Fukushima’s Nuclear Disaster Affected The Environment?

Audubon • March, 2012

A year after Japan’s nuclear meltdown, scientists are investigating the effects of radiation exposure on birds, other wildlife, and plants.

A Rare Jewel
A Rare Jewel

Audubon • March 2012

The Opal Creek wilderness, just two hours from Portland, is one of the Pacific Northwest’s last uncut old-growth forests.

Endangered Forest Species
Endangered Forest Species

American Forests • February 28, 2012

Laurie Wayburn stands quietly in a forest glade surrounded by towering coastal redwoods

A Restless Giant
A Restless Giant

High Country News • February 20, 2012

Environmental warrior Martin Litton is as fired up as ever

Plight of the Condors
Plight of the Condors

Scientific American • January 9, 2012

Once on the verge of extinction, North America’s largest land birds have made a dramatic comeback

Fresh Start
Fresh Start

Audubon • November/December 2011

A makeover turns manmade Aramburu Island into rich wildlife habitat.

California Tribe Competes With The State
California Tribe Competes With The State

High Country News • September, 2011

Everywhere she looks in Humbug Valley, Beverly Benner Ogle sees the past.

Message in a Bottle
Message in a Bottle

Audubon • March/April 2011

Red, white and green–the wine industry is widely embracing chemical-free viticulture that protects both the landscape and farmers

Conserving the Confluence
Conserving the Confluence

Nature Conservancy • Spring, 2011

Protecting an unparalleled property in Oregon.

Conservation 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.

Big Deal
Big Deal

Audubon • March/April, 2011

New funding protects more than 62,000 acres on a California Ranch.

Science Rises from Ashes
Science Rises from Ashes

High Country News • February 16, 2011

California school builds curriculum around local forest.