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The Pinchot Wire: Private Cash, Public Lands - Why The Katahdin Woods And Waters National Monument Matters, Char Miller
The Pinchot Wire: Private Cash, Public Lands - Why The Katahdin Woods And Waters National Monument Matters, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Here’s how President Obama celebrated the National Park Service’s 100th birthday: with the stroke of his pen, he established the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, one of the most innovative initiatives in U.S. environmental history. That’s because the 87,500-acre park, which encompasses some of the Pine Tree State’s most remarkable forests and waterways, is a gift of the Quimby family and comes with a $40 million endowment, a private-public partnership without parallel.
Embers, Char Miller
Embers, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
After living in Southern California for nine years, I should be used to fire season—and the fact that there is something called fire season—but I’m not.
My wife and I moved to the Southland in late summer 2007, and within the month we saw some of the region’s most horrific firestorms consume vast stretches of chaparral-cloaked foothills, deep canyons filled with alder and oak and, at higher elevations, thick stands of pine and cedar.
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.
Dead Trees Don’T Mean Catastrophe For California, Char Miller
Dead Trees Don’T Mean Catastrophe For California, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
Nature knows what it’s doing. You’d never know that, though, from the panicked reaction to news that 66 million trees in California have died since 2005, including 26 million said to have perished just in the last few months.
The Erskine Fire And Public-Lands Management In The American West, Char Miller
The Erskine Fire And Public-Lands Management In The American West, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
The Erskine Fire is big, fast and dangerous. Its power is evident in the tragic loss of life, the incineration of an estimated 150 structures and its rapid growth — more than 36,000 acres burned in its first 30 hours.
Fire Inevitable, Despite Attempts To Tame Chaparral, Char Miller
Fire Inevitable, Despite Attempts To Tame Chaparral, Char Miller
Pomona Faculty Publications and Research
You didn’t need to fly into Ontario International Airport this past week to know that Southern California’s fire season had begun. But the view from 10,000 feet offered a unique perspective on how wildfires impact the region.
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 …