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Half a dozen climbers, wearing nothing more than shorts and rubber-soled climbing shoes, are gathered around a large boulder in Camp 4 in Yosemite National Park. They are all trying to crack Midnight Lightning. With its 20-ft. overhanging rock face and minuscule handholds, it presents one of the...
The frequent-fire regime that prevailed in the ponderosa pine forests of Arizona and New Mexico, for example, kept fuels low over widespread areas. In the ponderosa pine forests of Colorado's Front Range, however, big burns were spaced farther apart, allowing flammable material to accumulate. These fires rolled through...
To date, most fuels-reduction measures have had fairly narrow goals, such as protecting valuable stands of trees. The logical next step, as Finney sees it, is to implement these measures across hundreds of thousands of acres. It is already clear, he notes, that prescribed burns have the power to...
In many ways, prescribed burns are preferable to mechanical thinning, which is labor intensive and therefore time-consuming and costly. But prescribed burns are not risk free, especially in areas that have been deprived of fire for long periods of time. Three years ago, for example, a prescribed fire at...
I cannot fathom the hatred for Hillary that burns in some conservatives. I am neither an admirer nor a detractor, but I'd vote her into the White House just to hear the screaming apoplexy that would erupt from radio and TV "hate-triots" who think they own America's...