Deer and elk must cross highways to get to summer range in spring, and then cross again to get to their winter range in fall. They must try to judge a metal-and-rubber predator, and they often lose.

President Biden traveled to the Pacific Northwest to sign an Executive Order to expand his Administration’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis. Among other things, the order will safeguard mature and old-growth forests on federal lands.

We need big bold visions to address climate change and biodiversity loss. The bad news is that these two rapidly accelerating processes power each other.

The lower slopes of MERA, which have once again developed over recent decades into a maturing stand of Ponderosa pine, are there for a reason.