This is the grave of Tom McCall. Born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1913 to a wealthy family who also had a big ranch in central Oregon, McCall fell in love with the West and graduated from Redmond High School and then the University of Oregon....
environment
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.
The massive growth of the wine industry has led to a very real problem--wine monocultures that transform ecologically complex places such as the hills of Napa County into carefully manicured.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake.
Just continuing to document the horrible ways that humans have decimated the planet. The dwindling North Atlantic right whale population is on track to finish its breeding season without any.
Effluent flowing from an International Paper Company Mill into the Androscroggin River, Maine, 1973 David Zwick, architect of the Clean Water Act of 1972, has died. His passage brings a number of thoughts to my mind. First, the success of...
While driving in eastern Oregon the other day, I saw a bald eagle. And it was great. I've seen them before, but it's always a treat. And as an environmental.
One of the most important and horrible stories of environmental degradation in the United States is the rapid decline of the passenger pigeon from perhaps the most common bird in.
I hate these people so much. President Donald Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah on Monday by some two million acres, the largest rollback of federal land protection in the nation’s history. The administration shrank Bears Ears National Monument, a...
One doesn't expect to see a full rant against capitalism in the New York Times, but I guess we are moving into different times. Benjamin Fong's op-ed about capitalism being.
Michelle Wilde Anderson has an outstanding essay that discusses how Trump and Republicans are returning to the "rule of capture" to fleece poor rural communities out of the natural resources..