Converging on Marine Reserves

Describes how the Quivira Coalition is helping ranchers find environmentally and economically sustainable solutions to grazing problems.

Proximity to roads and logging operations seem to not cause higher stress levels in spotted owls.

An examination of the conservation needs and problems of national parks and protected areas, using Manu National Park in Peru as a case study.

Community involvement is important in conservation.

A compilation of experiences and information from thirty leading conservationists for effective management of protected areas in the tropics.

An interesting discussion on the effects of prescribed fires on forest communities.

Key causes of tropical deforestation are analyzed in 90 developing countries.

Although found in places rarely disturbed by humans, this important high-mountain species is disappearing over much of its range. What may be causing this decline, and what can be done about it?

Invasive species have been eradicated to allow native plant and animal species to recover.

Outsourcing comes to the National Parks.

Distinguished writers, including John McPhee, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, Ann Zwinger, and Mark Strand, speak out on the necessity to protect and preserve America's wilderness.

Describes forest recovery after large-scale fire.

The role of ordinary families in settling the American West.

A summary of all the sites protected under the World Heritage program.

When Europeans arrived in the Americas they found not a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control.

An overview of the mechanics, background, and implications of voluntary certification programs in forest management.

Wetlands have been regarded as wastelands.

Comprehensive history of Costa Rica’s National Park Service, the people who have worked to preserve wilderness, and the role parks can play in addressing global environmental concerns.

Describes recovery of the forest after the massive 1988 fires.

What should a park be?

Arguments for removing cattle from public lands in the west.

Trawling for bottom fish causes damage equivalent to forest clearcutting.

A distinguished activist reflects on a life in conservation.

A description of 38 community-based ecotourism projects in the Ecuadorian rainforest, each managed to benefit local residents.

Forest fire intensity is often blamed on fuel buildup, but this large-scale study suggests that land use history has little effect on fire risks.

A compendium of case studies from many countries on the benefits and disadvantages of adventure travel.

Ecotourists and expeditioners can be a significant source of invasive organisms in pristine ecosystems.

Wiggins, S., et al. 2004. “Protecting the Forest or the People? Environmental Policies and Livelihoods in the Forest Margins of Southern Ghana.” World Development 32(11): 1939-1955.

Forest conservation programs usually focus on old-growth, interior forests, but pay little attention to forest margins where livelihoods depend on resource extraction and conservation is essential.

The U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service disagree on how to manage the greater Yellowstone ecosystem.

A selection of writings about wilderness.

Industrial hemp can be used to make clothes, paper, rope, shampoo, and beer while sparing forests. Why not make use of this fast-growing crop?

Challenges facing the wildlife refuge system in its second hundred years.

A moving memoir of losses in nature and in the author’s personal life.

Demand in Asia may be wiping out turtle populations worldwide.

The story of Arthur Carhart, the first landscape architect in the USFS and designer of the first wilderness areas in the US.

Tourists, pollution, low budgets, and encroaching civilization challenge the Great Smokey Mountains National Park as never before.

Satellites can monitor fires in remote areas.

A pioneering work in paleoecology.

Argues that grazing policies have brought ruin to western grazing lands to support an archaic myth of ranching.

Why “salvage” logging poses an ecological disaster.

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics argue that the U.S. should protect at least 20 million ha (50 million acres) from roads, logging, mining and oil and gas drilling.

A proposal for a Yellowstone to Yukon wild corridor.

Welfare Ranching presents one side of the debate over public lands ranching, offering a graphic look at the negative consequences of livestock production in the arid West.