Tom Yulsman interviews Cally Carswell and annotates her High Country News story, “The Tree Coroners,” about climate change and dying forests in the western U.S. "It was definitely a challenge to figure out how to structure a story with no real central character, and with multiple settings. My editor, the one and only Michelle Nijhuis, suggested using scale as a structural device, starting with a local story, then going regional, then going global, then back to local."
June 5, 2016