Sierra magazine March/April 2009

2009 March/April

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biking
Feature

Because It Hurts

Mount Hood's biking trails offer gawk-worthy views and grueling days that cause exhausted legs to cry out in agony.

By Peter Frick-Wright

March 1, 2009

The existing 360-megawatt Holcomb Station power plant in Garden City, Kansas, burns 1.5 million tons of coal from Wyoming's Powder River Basin each year. Its operators sought to sextuple its output.
Feature

Killing King Coal

With little hope of success, a scrappy band of activists tried to block a coal plant

By Scott Martelle

March 10, 2009

desert
Feature

A Sandy Place to Stop Thinking

The author sought desert adventure and found herself at home with a bedouin family

March 1, 2009

birds in oil spill
Feature

Anatomy of an Oil Spill

Eyes peeled for terrorists, the Coast Guard missed the boat—and San Francisco Bay took an ugly hit

By David Helvarg

March 1, 2009