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One View: Fire Fuels Regeneration In Eastern Sierra, Char Miller
One View: Fire Fuels Regeneration In Eastern Sierra, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Sometimes it’s the small things that can best tell big stories.
Like the Marina Fire, which currently has burned a modest 800 acres to the north of Lee Vining, threatened but did not burn any structures, and whose greatest disruption has been periodically to shut down US 395. It hardly seems worth much attention.
Malheur Occupation In Oregon: Whose Land Is It Really?, Char Miller
Malheur Occupation In Oregon: Whose Land Is It Really?, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, a 187,757-acre haven for greater sandhill cranes and other native birds in eastern Oregon, is usually a pretty peaceful place. But its calm was shattered on Saturday, January 2 when Ammon Bundy and a group of armed men broke into and occupied a number of federal buildings on the refuge, vowing to fight should the government try to arrest them. Their insurrectionary goal appears to be, simply put, to destroy the national system of public lands – our forests, parks and refuges – that was developed in the late 19th century to conserve these …