Category Archives: Sierra

Jan/Feb 2009 Nicaraguan coffee growers are preserving ecosystems that nurture banana trees, sloths, and a new breed of tourists The mist was clearing, revealing forested hilltops that mark the edge of a protected national forest in Nicaragua’s northern highlands. With … (more…)

With Google Earth, satellite images become an activist’s ally September/October 2007 LATE IN 2005, REBECCA MOORE WAS GIVING a presentation to a community group concerned about proposed logging in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco. In the darkened … (more…)