If you are me, you'd rather me in some awesome wilderness area hiking around than, well, about anything else. Meanwhile, in the three years I lived in Texas, I never got out to Big Bend National Park and I regret that a lot. To be...
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Good move here on the part of the Biden administration and let's hope there's a way to move this toward permanence so that the next Republican administration can't just undo.
David Nye is one of our top historians of technology and he has a new book out on American landscapes and the greater political division over them. This is a.
The Democratic trifecta can lead to some great things. That includes a big public lands bill that's been in the making for a long time. It's actually a series of laws and includes some very important public lands goals: The Grand Canyon Protection Act: The...
Fresh off a two-decade effort to eviscerate the national monuments on Utah's public lands, the state's Republican lawmakers are engaging in a deeply cynical attempt to create a few small.
I am very happy to see my senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, introduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, into the Senate. This would protect 23 million acres of roadless lands as.
This piece on the threat of a large copper mine to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is a sign a failure in the larger wilderness debates, which is not creating buffer zones of limited industrial activity that would allow some economic functions but also...
This is the grave of Howard Zahniser: Howard Zahniser was the long-time head of the Wilderness Society and the architect of the 1964 Wilderness Act, which he dedicated his professional.
This is the grave of Bob Marshall, New York Jewish elite, socialist, forester, and wilderness advocate. A truly fascinating individual, Marshall grew up in the Jewish community of New York.
Conservation biologists are currently in another civil war over the meaning of the field. In short, should conservation be concerned more with humans or should it be concerned more with biodiversity? I find these conversations frustrating because they are so either/or. In other words, they...
The great environmentalist Martin Litton has died. A radical within what was traditionally a pretty conservative Sierra Club, Litton allied with David Brower to lead the fight to save Dinosaur.
My love of an intrusive federal government is well-known. I think government can indeed do most things better than the private sector. But that doesn't mean that government is perfect..