America\u27s Forgotten Ecosystem

For a relationship that began poorly, Tim Reynolds\u27 romance has endured exceedingly well. The ecologist has spent the past 25 years conducting wildfire research on the 900 square miles that make up the grounds of the U.S. Department of Energy\u27s Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory—one of the best remaining chunks of a type of northwestern U.S. habitat called sagebrush steppe