Pacific Lumber Company has new owners, and they have vowed to protect some of the oldest living things in the world — ancient redwood trees. The tree sitters of the Scotia mountainsides have finally come down.
“Around before Jesus was born,” this AP story says of the trees, as do all the forest rangers — my […] Read more »
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005. I was in India working then as the photo editor for a wire agency. Though I was used to responding 24/7 to breaking news, even in the middle of the night, the idea of the people living in New Orleans, who were steeling themselves for a disaster […] Read more »
Living on the East Coast has been a shock to the system for this California country girl. There are lakes and rivers and creeks galore, but none safe to swim in. I once spent an entire day driving around the countryside in Pennsylvania searching for a clean a body of water: the lake was disgusting, […] Read more »
