Nothing wild: Can California fix wild habitat, save water and stop fires?
There’s an ecological crisis underway in California’s lonely corner of the American West. Invasive grasses are causing fires to explode. Wild horses are trampling fragile habitats. Thousands of water birds are dying miserable deaths. Wolves are settling down in hostile territory. Sacramento Bee reporter Ryan Sabalow examines the hardline politics, romantic notions of the West and intractable idealism that have made these problems harder to solve.