A growing body of research and analysis offers a counterintuitive message for the West: plan to live with fire. By Mark Blaine

• Fires in Forests by Mark Blaine
• Fire Lessons by Jamie Passaro
• Finding the Truth about Suppressing Wildland Fires by Timothy Inglesbee & Christine Ambrose
• The Outsider Within by Mark Blaine

• Giving Good Weight: Public Comment, the Forest Service and You. What do those millions of letters, post cards and e-mails mean to the U.S. Forest Service? by Cheri Brooks
• Urban Renewal. A little bit of green goes a long way for urban foresters planning to commemorate September 11. by Erica Rex
• Marbled Murrelet. Solving the mystery of the marbled murrelet. by Tim McNulty
• New York's Finger Lakes National Forest. A land in transition. by Mary M. Woodsen

The noisiest, most destructive and perhaps least popular form of recreation on the national forests of California is the best funded. But Bob Libershal, a forest protection officer with twenty-three years of experience, didn't realize that and ran afoul of the entrenched off-road vehicle interests on the Angeles National Forest. By Mark Blaine

• Standing Up for a Sense of Place. An embattled former forest Supervisor—Gloria Flora—continues to fight for land ethics. by Jamie Passaro
• Babbit’s Back. Bruce Babbitt flexes political muscles for dubious ends. by Matt Rasmussen
• The Big Cypress Preserve and the Controversy Over Oil. Development threatens the Everglades Watershed. by Erica Rex
• Publishers Note. William Dwyer: A Judge's Judge. by Andy Stahl
• Out There. Maine Woods. by George Wuerthner
• Maidu Stewardship Project: Restoring the Understory. Returning American Indian ways to forest management forges an alliance on the Plumas National Forest. by Jane Braxton Little

The Canada lynx, and the messengers of science who bear its tidings, are a threat to the authority of the U.S. Forest Service. By Mark Blaine

• Coming of Age for the Quincy Experiment. Quincy's heralded model for cooperation is frustrated by conflicting U.S. Forest Service policy. by Jane Braxton Little
• Wildlife Watchers: The Big Business of Loving Wildlife in Alaska. Face-to-face with bears and whales in Alaska. by Matt Rasmussen
• Leave It to Beavers. Beavers hold promise for restoring riparian habitat. by Jim Yuskavitch

The training preached safety so much that Devin Weaver wondered if he’d ever get near a fire. Now his father wants to know how all those rules were broken and ignored. By Ken Weaver

• A Young Stand. Gifford Pinchot's century-old split with John Muir tells much about how government still manages wild places. by Char Miller
• Bleeding Away. Corporate raider Charles Hurwitz's legacy in redwood country: devastated watersheds. by Keith Easthouse
• Water’s for Fighting. Colorado national forests find themselves last in line for rights to water on their land. by Allen Best