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Menhaden, Osprey, Human

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On July 22, 2023
Saturday afternoon seems like a good time to talk about the thing liberal communities care the most about--the complexity of natural resource politics. In this case, I wanted to highlight this good discussion of the complex issues around menhaden, a bony, oily fish that is...
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Squirrel Migration

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On April 9, 2023
You think you know pretty much everything about American environmental history (remember that this is my training, not labor history) but then you read something like this and it kinda blows your mind. Even people who love squirrels might have been unnerved at what Philo...
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Rewilding Pennsylvania

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On February 28, 2023
I've spent more than my share of time in rural western Pennsylvania and the only way to describe it is as a beautiful and surprisingly wild place with an aging, declining, and, uh, problematic population. So it's a bit more fun to think about the...
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The Buffalo Commons

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On January 11, 2023
Back in the 1980s, Frank and Deborah Popper came up with the idea of the Buffalo Commons. Basically, their idea was that the western Plains are almost completely depopulated and ecologically degraded. Why not connect up large parts of the Plains and turn bison loose...
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