Residents take pride in their timber piles, debate best techniques News is obsessed with the flashy questions: “Is God Dead?” “Who Killed Kennedy?” “What is a Kardashian?” Yet for years, a quieter ...

In 2012, I spent a season on a wildland firefighting crew based just outside California’s Sequoia National Park. Our first assignment wasn’t a wildfire but a cleanup project at Devils Postpile ...

A stack of firewood is so much more than just a pile of logs. It’s a rustic manifestation of hard work completed, a symbol of coziness to come. Changing shape with the seasons, it embodies both the ...

Stockpiling firewood for the winter has moved up a notch, as participants in the first annual Pioneers of Alaska wood stacking contest can attest. Competitors in the Juneau area showed off their ...