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Good going - Pyramid Lake - Brief Article
In a parched corner of the driest state, Pyramid Lake seems misplaced. Its treeless shoreline suggests it was freshly formed, but in fact its...
Sierra, 11/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
The creatures evacuating Devil's sinkhole - Good Going/bats - Brief Article
The creatures evacuating Devil's Sinkhole swirl into the dusking Texas sky like, well, bats out of hell. Each evening from April through October,...
Sierra, 09/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
Mending our waterways - News For Members - cleaning up the water
The water Cindi Jablonski is looking at appears fresh as Edenic dew, but she's about to discover it's full of fish-strangling phosphate. Too much...
Sierra, 05/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
On the wind-whipped slopes of White Mountain - Good Going
On the wind-whipped slopes of White Mountain, geriatric bristlecone pines submit to life's tribulations. For millennia, the trees have clutched the...
Sierra, 03/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
Good going - Norway
Winters in Norway are indeed protracted, giving you ample time to experience them. Finnmark, the northernmost county, which borders Finland and...
Sierra, 01/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
A chip on their shoulder - Louisiana - cypress mulch - Brief Article
Louisiana gardeners who spread rich-looking orange-red cypress mulch in their yards may not realize they're helping to liquidate their natural...
Sierra, 01/01/03 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
When Grandma Gatewood hiked the Appalachian Trail - Good Going
When Grandma Gatewood hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1955, she tramped all 2,170 miles in tennis shoes, her only shelter an army blanket, a...
Sierra, 11/01/02 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
Good going
The island of Moloka doesn't look like hell, but for more than a hundred years, lepers from the rest of Hawaii were banished to a remote peninsula...
Sierra, 09/01/02 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
Oil and water - Florida - efforts to prevent offshore oil exploration, drilling - Brief Article
Blood may be thicker than water, but it seems that oil trumps both. Last summer, the Bush administration opened a 1.5-million-acre swath of the...
Sierra, 03/01/02 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication -
A trick without a treat - Massachusetts - students' effort to gain support against oil drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Brief Article
There were caribou in Cambridge last October. No, the arctic herd didn't get lost. it was the Harvard Sierra Student Coalition dressed up for...
Sierra, 03/01/02 by Elisa Freeling · More from publication
