Missoula, Mont. — As wildfire season presses on across the western United States, forest experts say that they have several tools available to counter them ahead opf time.

A unique kind of beast emerges from the marshlands of the East Coast each July.  New England beachgoers know them well: With bulging, Kelly green eyes, and mouthparts that slice into their targets’ skin like scissors, greenhead horseflies can’t be ignored.  But with enough data, they can, perhaps, be avoided — at least, that’s what […]

Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.

On the eastern edge of the Las Vegas Valley sit hundreds of acres of watery wetlands.  A secret garden of sorts, the Clark County Wetlands Park seems like stepping into another world. The air slightly cools as it drifts through tall meadow grasses and gurgling streams. Decades-old Cottonwood and Mesquite trees dot the landscape, offering […]