BEDFORD - Is it possible that an animal specially adapted to old-growth forests is still present? This presentation will make the case that such an animal still exists in Indiana, and the story will include Native Americans, fire, passenger pigeons, bison, and more. A forested landsca .
Tim Sheehy, founder and CEO of Bridger Aerospace, takes to the skies to battle the wildfires destroying thousands of acres of land, and threatening lives.
Proposed legislation would allow fixed climbing anchors in wild places. The change, the author argues, would spoil the wilderness while setting a harmful precedent.
This is the Oak Flat campground — a sacred site for thousands of Native Americans and home to what the Rio Tinto mining company claims is one of the largest undeveloped copper-ore deposits in the world, capable of producing 40 billion pounds of copper over the next 40 years. The block-cave method proposed by Resolution Copper, the British-Australian mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP that has rights to the land, would destroy Oak Flat.
The objective of the project is to reduce the risk of stand replacement wildfire by diversifying forest structure, reducing tree densities, reducing ground ladder fuels, and increasing canopy base height.