Workers peel a log for a building in Olympic National Forest in Washington in this historic Forest Service photo. Courtesy USDA Forest Service.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack chose an unusual way to celebrate the International Year of the Forest – unusual, at least, if you’re a tree. (more…)
When Tim DeChristopher stepped out from the federal courthouse after hearing the guilty verdict against him, he walked among the crowd of supporters who had rallied around him since before his trial began. He raised his fist in the air, and they raised theirs. (more…)
Residents of Battlement Mesa, a sprawling housing development in western Colorado, are used to seeing the golf course from their windows, not gas rigs. (more…)
Tim DeChristopher stands at a rally against coal mining in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. DeChristopher is scheduled to stand trial on Monday for disrupting an auction of controversial gas leases in Utah. Photo by Ed Kosmicki ©2011 and photosourcewest.com.
Tim DeChristopher traded a protest sign for a bidding paddle and thwarted an auction of controversial natural gas leases. He’s become a conservation hero, but his action could put him behind bars for a decade. (more…)
Former Vice President Al Gore speaks at a symposium on global warming and Western forests in Aspen, Colo. David Frey photo.
Seen from above, the mountains of central Colorado are a snow-covered mosaic of meadows, aspens and lodgepole pines. Some of those pines are green, their branches holding new-fallen snow. Others are red fading to brown – the telltale signs of trees killed by an epidemic of bark beetles that have wiped out millions of acres across the West. (more…)
Red needles of pines killed by bark beetles show through recent snow in Eagle County, Colo., which has been hard-hit by an infestation of bark beetles. David Frey photo.
ASPEN — Global warming is reshaping forests throughout Colorado and across the West, scientists and public-land managers agreed at a symposium Friday, leaving foresters at pains to deal with a landscape that could look very different in the future. (more…)
I’m a freelance journalist based near Washington, D.C., where I specialize in writing about food, the environment and travel writing from a shrinking globe. I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to contact me at david@davidmfrey.com.