Big chop: 27 months in prison for cutting trees near Truckee
By Barbara Barte Osborn - Published: Thursday, July 16 2009 - 4:41 pm

A man charged with cutting old-growth trees on U.S. Forest Service land near Truckee was sentenced earlier this week to 27 months in prison and $70,430 in restitution.

Study links wildfires in Sierra to climate change
Published: Friday, April 24 2009 - 2:50 pm
A warming climate will fuel larger, more frequent wildfires in the Sierra Nevada and other parts of the West, and the fires will contribute to climate change, according to a new study.
As old-growth trees die at faster rate, scientists blame climate change
By Tom Knudson - Published: Friday, January 23 2009 - 12:00 am
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Tree mortality rates have doubled in old-growth forests across the Sierra Nevada and western United States because of rising temperatures associated with climate change, a new study has found.
Sierra Warming: High anxiety over later snow, earlier melt
By Tom Knudson - Updated: Friday, December 26 2008 - 7:09 am
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In the late arrival of this year's snow season – and increasingly early spring snowmelt from the mountains – scientists and state officials are finding more than the signature of a natural drought. They believe they detect the fingerprint of climate change.
Sierra Nevada climate changes feed monster, forest-devouring fires
By Tom Knudson - Updated: Sunday, November 30 2008 - 9:29 am
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Wildfire has marched across the West for centuries. But no longer are major conflagrations fueled simply by heavy brush and timber. Now climate change is stoking the flames higher and hotter, too.

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