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The Wabanaki Basketmakers’ Plans to Save Maine’s Ash Trees

The invasive emerald ash borer, native to northeast Asia, has spread to 37 states over the past quarter century, killing nearly all of the ash trees it infests. But in Maine, a coalition of basketmakers, scientists and government officials are plotting a future for their trees.

By Sydney Cromwell

Richard Silliboy uses a machine to pound an ash log in his workshop. Once pounded, the log will divide into layers that can be separated and thinned into strips for basketmaking. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News
South32’s Hermosa project is seen on March 3 just outside Patagonia, Ariz. Credit: EcoFlight

Nation’s First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot

By Wyatt Myskow

The burned remains of a timber operation in Molalla, Ore., on Sept. 13, 2020, after the Riverside Fire swept through the area. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

The Fight Over Logging on U.S. Public Lands Isn’t Done Yet

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

A patch of the White Mountain National Forest is clear-cut in a logging operation near Stow, Maine. Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images

Decades-Old Rule that Allowed Logging on Vast Swaths of US Land Ruled Unlawful by Oregon Court

By Gloria Dickie

Fuels management specialists for the Chequamegon-Nicolet Nation Forest move a downed tree to open a path for vehicles on May 29 in Wisconsin. Credit: Eric A. Britton/USDA Forest Service

Potential Repeal of Roadless Rule Could Permanently Damage Midwest National Forests

By Sarah Mattalian

People walk through the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area, designated during Obama administration, in Washington County, Utah. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

New Poll Finds Broad Support for Conservation and Action on Climate Change Across the West

By Jake Bolster

This clear-cutting in March in Hoosier National Forest, captured by drone, is taking place in Crawford County in southern Indiana, just south of an even larger project the Forest Service is planning in an area it calls Buffalo Springs. Photo courtesy of Robbie Heinrich

Log and Burn, or Leave Alone? Indiana Residents Fight US Forest Service Over the Future of Hoosier National Forest

By Marianne Lavelle

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