The world has been in a similar climate pattern for about 10,000 years, or since the end of the last Ice Age and the transition to ‘modern’ times, called the Holocene by geologists. This is the time of the slow but steady rise of civilization as we know it, including farming culture (agri-culture), the domestication […]
The Forest Service is well-known as a kind of schizophrenic agency, one at odds with itself, with conflicting, even opposing directives and philosophies. This split personality is from its inception. The ‘Land of Many Uses’ is supposed to try to be all things to all people, with conflicting directives, going a little crazy trying to […]
Hot. Dry. Now, hotter. Drier. Climate change is primarily caused by earth’s carbon cycle being kicked out of a long-term balance by the burning of fossil fuels. The extra carbon in the air traps extra heat, which raises temperatures globally. The alteration of this fundamental cycle changes other cycles too, notably the water cycle. Oceans […]
Aldo Leopold – often considered the father of modern conservation – shot an old wolf in Arizona. He approached her, and later wrote, “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me […]
Climate change has become almost impossible to reasonably deny anymore, as has the need for a swift, decisive, and thorough response. Surging in the last decade, CO2 emissions globally are reaching new highs despite growth In renewables. Climate change has come home to roost, even in the United States, in a fierce and relentless way. […]
There’s a fresh, strong breeze blowing in the field of conservation and it is redefining conservation itself: conservation as not just protecting land, water and species, not just playing defense against venal politics and the juggernaut of human growth and development, fighting this battle here, that battle there. No. This is conservation going for what […]