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Forest Service Chief Talks Climate Change -- in Washington and on the Ground
February 27, 2013 2:00 PM
by Char Miller
Golden Green:
How to manage the national forests amid climate disruption? Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell has some ideas.
The Hidden Desert:
If it seems to you you've heard the word "milk-vetch" come up in one desert environmental issue after another, you're remembering right.
Why Taxpayers Are Getting Burned by Climate Change
February 20, 2013 2:00 PM
by Char Miller
Golden Green:
The more we ignore climate change the greater the costs will be, says the Government Accounting Office. Its numbers add up.
Golden Green:
The American West has been organized around numbers, from Lewis and Clark to L.A. Freeways.
The Hidden Desert:
The last time you took a long road trip, did you assume you had enough gas because you checked the gas gauge a couple days ago? That's how California manages its bobcat population: letting the "supply" go uncounted for more than three decades as we burn through a thousand or more each year.
The Hidden Desert:
A painful step on a cactus leads writer Chris Clarke down the path of explaining the fearsome plant family's range of weapons.
They Kept Ward Valley Nuclear-Free (Part 2)
February 7, 2013 10:00 AM
by Chris Clarke
The Hidden Desert:
An unprecedented coalition of Native people and other environmental activists fought the State of California to a standstill 15 years ago on a proposal to dump low-level nuclear waste in Ward Valley.
Will ObamaCorps Become the New Civilian Conservation Corps?
February 6, 2013 2:00 PM
by Char Miller
Golden Green:
The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
They Kept Ward Valley Nuclear-Free (Part 1)
February 5, 2013 10:00 AM
by Chris Clarke
The Hidden Desert:
It's one of those places in the California desert where you can find yourself 20 miles off the pavement without much problem. It's also where California almost put its final dump for low-level nuclear waste.
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