A New Challenge for Wilderness: To Intervene or Not to Intervene?

What does “untrammeled” mean in the Anthropocene

In northern Idaho and Montana, whitebark pines are “keystone species” that play essential ecological roles in high-country forests. They are among the first plants to establish following a fire or landslide, creating shade that nurses other trees’ growth, and helping to reduce…
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by: Joshua Zaffos – September 4, 2014