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Meko, a scientist at the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona, has been studying the climate history of the western United States for decades. Tree-ring fieldwork is hardly expensive—you need a device called an increment borer to drill into the trees, you need plastic straws (available in a pinch from McDonald’s) to store the pencil-thin cores you’ve extracted from bark to pith, and you need gas, food, and lodging.

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With over 600,000 miles of Forest Service roads across the country n more than the agency could ever maintain n riders will always have land to access. But they nevertheless grow hysterical at suggestions to limit their skyrocketing use.

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it would certainly be a challenge for
anyone to go out to the logging unit pictured here and
convince the general public that doing this type of
heavy, industrial logging in previously unlogged, oldgrowth
forests four miles from the nearest home is in
any way “restoration” or “fuel reduction.”

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We’re having one of those I-can’t-believe-what-we’re-seeing moments, as we snowshoe on trails around Old Faithful on a cold but sunny winter afternoon. Did you know Yellowstone has more thermal features than anywhere in the world — some 10,000 geysers, bubbling mud pots, hot springs and more. That’s half of the world’s hydrothermal features!

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Six females and five males were released Sunday at various locations. They are equipped with radio tracking devices so biologists can watch where they travel.

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Employing a 2-year-old state law for the first time, the Governor’s Office is claiming ownership of roads that cross federal lands as a way to keep them open to off-highway recreation and oil and gas drilling.