Wilderness Sportsman Music Club Marissa Nadler performing “Silvia”
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Glacier National Park: Warming to the wild and civilized
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. — The late July storm broke over the valley like a wave over the prow of a ship. Hikers, emerging from the forest, dashed across stretches of lawn as lightning cut across the darkening sky. Couples in canoes awkwardly zigzagged their way toward the dock as thunder rumbled overhead.
Maine: Wilderness may be gone, but we must protect wildness
And the committee’s report did not hesitate to speak of the North Woods as “wildlands” or to say that much of the “wildness” Thoreau found a century earlier still remained and should be protected.
Minnesota: Gunflint community plants more than 75000 trees (video)
The long-lived red and white pines are particularly good for the reforesting the area.
Colorado: Judge rejects motion to halt pipeline
Pitkin County and environmental groups were seeking a temporary injunction to halt construction of a 25.5-mile pipeline south of Silt on the White River and Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre (un-kum-PAW’-gray) and Gunnison national forests
Florida: Treed black bear is caught
A tranq gun? In Chicago they use seven cops firing away.
The bear that has been roaming the Orlando area fell out of a tree Sunday, giving wildlife officials the opportunity they were looking for to tranquilize him and relocate him to a much less urban environment: the Ocala National Forest.
Washington: Forest Service plans to close some sites for cost cutting
The U.S. Forest Service agency released a draft report Friday of a two-year analysis of all 359 developed recreation sites in the two forests. Faced with shrinking federal funding for maintaining recreation sites, the report recommends an action plan for reducing costs across the sprawling forests, which cover four million acres from the Canadian border south to Yakima.
Arizona: Grand Canyon wildfire near containment
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK - A wildfire that has charred more than 2,000 acres near the Grand Canyon National Park was 90 percent contained by Friday afternoon.
Bark beetle causing campground closures in the Rockies
The U.S. Forest Service has closed some popular campgrounds in the two states because of concern that trees killed by the bark beetles that are ravaging forests across the West could topple onto unsuspecting visitors.