Articles by Edwin Kiester, Jr. from Smithsonian Magazine

Communities worried about the ravages of wildfires are embracing a four-legged solution

October 2001

By their first birthday, babies are getting locked into the sounds of the language they hear spoken

January 2001

Even with air power and satellite tracking, it still takes people with axes and shovels to stop a forest fire

June 30, 2000

When smog killed 20 people in a Pennsylvania mill town in 1948, the clean air movement got its start

November 1999

Confronted with a hill full of gold, miners removed the hill and the gold and left a mess behind

August 1999

Planes are stacked on the runways and circling in holding patterns, delays are piling up and . . . the dominoes are falling

September 30, 1998

When winter comes, and avalanches threaten to hurtle down the slopes, a 26-member crew works around the clock to keep this California highway open

March 1, 1998

Thanks to 300 volunteers, steelhead are back again, despite highways, offices and a campus

December 1997

Water, Water, Everywhere

July 31, 1997