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By Cathy P. Kellon, Ecotrust It’s late August on Abernathy Creek in western Washington State and a construction crew is awhirl hauling wood to replace log jams that have been absent from this stream for decades — all part of an effort to reconnect the stream with its floodplain. After each frequent rainstorm here in…
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I have two birthdays on my calendar circled with a big red marker this year. One is for my daughter, who just turned one, and the other is October 18th. That’s the day one of my closest friends turns 40. And while getting over the hill is a bittersweet bon anniversaire for most, this…
Fire and Rain: The One-Two Punch of Flooding After Blazes
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on August 31, 2011 
The great balls of fire that leapt from treetop to treetop in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico earlier this summer, threatening the town of Los Alamos and a federal nuclear research laboratory, were apocalyptic enough. They left behind a scorched landscape of dead trees, charred woods and blackened earth. From June 26 until…
