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To protect forests, I learned to burn them

Published 14 min read

AUBURN, Wash. — In the back row of a small community college classroom, I sip my coffee and consider a cumulus cloud, a puffy white pillar over an expanse of blue. I’m not staring out the window, but at a presentation on a screen at the front of the room.  Cumulus clouds are a telltale…

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Patagonia, environmental groups revive old legal fights against new cuts to national monuments

Published 4 min read

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s decision to sharply downsize two Utah national monuments in July are re-upping their argument that he didn’t have the authority to do so. Retailer Patagonia, environmental groups and tribal organizations waged legal battles against Trump in 2017 after he ordered prior reductions of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.…