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TOWAOC — Drought in much of the West, 22 years running, has struck Colorado's Four Corners tribal lands with bitter force. This year, the Ute Mountain Ute's celebrated 7,700 acre
American Forests History: American ReLeaf celebrates its 30th anniversary Millions of monarchs overwinter in the high-elevation forests of Michoacán, Mexico, where they cluster in oyamel firs for warmth and protection. Credit: Gami Photo Agency / Shutterstock. EVERY YEAR, millions of monarchs overwinter in the high-elevation forests of Michoacán, Mexico, where they cluster in oyamel firs for warmth and protection. Here, a Goldilocks combination of temperature and humidity keeps the butterflies healthy until spring. But for decades, legal and illegal loggers have been felling the monarchs’...
Melissa Jenkins usually doesn’t take pictures on hikes in Montana’s Whitefish Range. Here, the whitebark pine that she works to restore has been so decimated by a fungus that gray skeletal ghost forests reign, haunting symbols of a once widespread species. But last summer, she paused to snap a shot of survivors flanking the trail, ragged but defiant. « It felt like walking through soldiers standing guard even though they had little left to give to the battle, » she recalls. « Walking through ghost forests is somber, because you can envision what once was, and you aren’t sure if it...