Peeling Back The Bark
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Hollywood in Flames
By Guest Contributor on January 16, 2025Guest Contributor Stephen Pyne originally published this essay in December 2024, just weeks before wildfires devastated the cities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades in the Los Angeles area in January 2025. The fires are expected to be the most destructive in U.S. history. — “The city burning is Los Angeles’s deepest image of itself.” -…
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A Journey Through the Life of L. Keville Larson, Forestry Consultant
By Lauren Bissonette on October 15, 2024Laurens Keville Larson (1937–2023) It was July 2023, and I was finally traveling to Mobile, Alabama, to conduct an oral history with Keville Larson. This interview was some time in the making. During the height of Covid quarantining, Steven Anderson and I attempted to interview him over Zoom. It wasn’t an ideal situation, so we…
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How I Came to Mann Gulch
By Guest Contributor on August 6, 2024Guest Contributor Stephen Pyne took time out during a visit in 2012 to Mann Gulch to reflect on author Norman Maclean and his book Young Men and Fire. “In my story of the Mann Gulch fire, how I first came to Mann Gulch is part of the story.” – Norman Maclean, Young Men and…
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The Oberlaender Trust and American Forestry
By Lauren Bissonette on June 27, 2022
