by Beth
May 10, 2011
The National Forest Foundation will spend the next five years planting trees in an area of Angeles National Forest that was scorched to the dirt. The Station Fire, alleged to be arson, started in August 2009 and was contained in October 2009, burning 161,000 acres of the national forest near the city of Los Angeles. [...]
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by Beth
April 2, 2011
Ed Self, executive director of Boulder nonprofit Wildlands Restoration Volunteers, had a great article in the spring 2011 newsletter. I’m going to quote from it here. We normally think of outdoor recreation as doing one of myriad activities such as hiking, mountain biking, skiing, rock climbing, horseback riding, etc. At these times we are “users” [...]
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