Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday's New York Times ran a story titled, "Some See Beetle Attacks on Western Forests as a Natural Event" - a title that confuses if not completely misrepresents the beetle attack that is devastating our western forests. In isolation, the...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Yesterday I told the story of whitebark pine as the king of its ecosystem - making reference to the enormous role it plays in its community and also to the following photograph which I described as a sylvan Shakespearean character,...continued→
Posted by Sylvia Fallon in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Its not just any tree - you can tell from this picture. As my colleague, Niel Lawrence, remarked, it looks like a sylvan Oberon, King of the Fairies, sneaking up on Titania. Found in harsh, high elevation locations in...continued→
