As some of you may know, the book I'm mostly working on is a history of the Pacific Northwest since 1960. I wasn't entirely sure what the thesis was going to be when I started, though I knew it would be focused on class and...
wildlife
One of the many ways that Donald Trump is by no means worse than the average Republican politician is on wildlife issues, especially around endangered species. Republicans have wanted to.
For all the hiking I've done, I've ever only seen a rattlesnake once and that was when I was driving across Wyoming and one was doing its crazy sidewinder slither.
This is such a weird story. Mountaintop removal is a horrible, nasty, awful thing, one that reshapes an entire region's geology, some of the oldest mountains in the world, and dumps toxins in the region so that rich coal executives can make the planet uninhabitable...
It's amazing how quickly the ecosystem rights itself if people just stay out of the way. COVID-19 has demonstrated this repeatedly. From Thailand: Since the coronavirus pandemic accelerated in March,.
This is the grave of William Temple Hornaday. Born in 1854 in Avon, Indiana, Hornaday's family moved to Iowa when he was young and while there, he basically watched the.
I guess there's no reason for Florida's escaped monkeys to be any less disease ridden than Florida's people: In the heart of central Florida lies Silver Spring State Park—a large patchwork of forests and wetlands with a spring-fed river flowing through it. One of Florida’s...
Dan Flores is an environmental and western historian who is also a fantastic writer. Most of his books have been about life and history on the southwestern Plains, especially west.
Here's a "fun" visualization of seven species whose numbers are so low that they could all theoretically fit in a train car. Good job humans. And especially good job capitalism.
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 new births, prompting experts to warn again that without human intervention, the species will face...
In 1997, I was traveling in Sumatra and I ended up at this camp where they did orangutan rehabilitation for released into the wild. You could watch the morning feeding,.
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.