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Shrugging off a Cataclysm
Five years ago, I took a backpacking trip to Alaska because, as I wryly put it then, I wanted to “see the place before it melted.” Like most tourists to the Last Frontier, I was blown away by the burly beauty of the state, the ease with which you can find yourself in the wild. But a pall shadowed my enjoyment. As a first-time visitor, I couldn’t help but notice that huge swaths of Alaskan forest were dead or dying. In many places, groves of brown trees broke the greenery. At times, I saw entire mountain slopes that had perished.
The problem, I learned, was the mountain pine beetle. The beetle…more
Contents
- Features
- Fear Factor ⇐ Read now!
- Can We Learn to Live with Predators Among Us?
- by Elizabeth Grossman
- Features
- Fever in the Forests ⇐ Read now!
- Global climate change is making many trees sick – and in the process releasing more carbon into the atmosphere
- by Daniel McGlynn
- Features
- Mission Impossible ⇐ Read now!
- Ecologists agree that there is no way to win the War Against Wildfire. So why is the Forest Service spending more than ever on fire suppression?
- by Jason Mark
- Spyhopping: In Ecuador, Trees Now Have Rights
- by Gar Smith
- Earth Island News: Red Panda Network
- Fighting for the Firefox
- Earth Island News: Viva Sierra Gorda
- Livelihood from the Land
- Reports: The Amazon: It’s What’s for Dinner
- The Spread of Soy Plantations Poses a New Threat to the Rainforest
- by Cameron Scott
- 1,000 Words: Forest of Memory
- by Elena Baca Suquet
- Reports: Borderlands
- Illegal Logging Threatens Russia’s Last Great Wilderness
- by Adam Federman
- Reports: A Future with Forestry
- Community Forest Enterprises Offer Hope for Rural Mexico
- by Benjamin Hodgdon
- Reports: Up in Smoke
- Big Tobacco Ruins a Small African Nation
- by Bryan Farrell
- In Review: Flow
- by Irena Salina Produced by Oscilloscope Laboratories, 84 Minutes
- In Review: Bargaining for Eden
- The Fight for the Last Open Spaces in America
- by Stephen Trimble 336 pages, University of California Press, 2008
- Voices: A Tale of Two Wildernesses
- by Michael Stoll
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