Articles by Grist staff

The Fisher Is King

Fearful that a lawsuit filed by enviros might lead to a court-ordered logging injunction in the Sierra Nevada in California, the U.S. Forest Service next week will initiate its own three-month logging ban on 11 million acres in the region. Three enviro groups, including the Earth Island Institute, sued the Forest Service in October for […]

Making a U-tern

Stoking the fires of the Midwest’s most contentious environmental issue, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers agreed yesterday that the flow of water in the Missouri River should be increased in the spring to save fish and birds from extinction. Gen. Carl Strock became the first Corps official to […]

You Picked a Fine Time to Fund Me, Lucille

Halfway through a five-year effort to preserve wildlife habitat and farmland in Central California, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation issued a report yesterday saying that it could not go it alone and that the land preservation movement needed long-term support from the state government to be successful. The foundation is funding a $175 million […]

Panda-monium

Two decades into the effort to save giant pandas in China from extinction, the greatest remaining threat to pandas may be poor farmers. Chinese authorities estimate that only about 1,000 pandas continue to live in the wild after logging and poaching decimated the animal’s ranks. In recent years, the country has introduced stiff fines to […]