These Fires will Happen Again and Again
“This pattern of build-and-burn will continue..”
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MoreCovid-19 And Recreation: Too Much Poop, Too Many People
“Though conservation groups continue to point fingers at logging, mining and ranching, they’ve been slow to acknowledge impacts from outdoor recreation.”
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MoreA Goldmine by a Salmon Fishery is a Terrible Idea
The Bristol Bay salmon fishery is a renewable resource; the legacy of the Pebble Mine promises perpetual pollution
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MoreSchool + Pandemic = High Anxiety
“Before opening those classrooms to the lion that lurks inside, let’s ask ourselves one last time: Whose life is it worth? “
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MoreColorado Needs Wolves
“…we can efficiently and affordably undo our ancestors’ shortsighted decision to erase wolves from America’s wild place.”
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MoreWolves and lots of People Don’t Mix
“Wolf proponents see western Colorado as an empty wilderness, not acknowledging the combustion engine, or Interstate-70.”
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MoreIf You Like Fish and Birds, Hug a Cow
“Eighty-five percent of grazing lands — think sagebrush steppe or high desert landscapes — are not suitable for any other type of food production”
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MoreIf the Water Goes, the Desert Moves in
“Without water, you’ve got nothing around here.”
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MoreThe wall with Mexico will come tumbling down
But one needs to read only a bit of world history to realize that walls can come down as a quickly as they were put up.
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MoreThe Bomb and Me, 75 Years Later
“my face received about a hundred times more radiation than Japanese nuke bomb”
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MoreClimbing Walls While Sitting in a Chair
Suddenly tears flowed. “Geez, you could say I squashed a bug.”
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MoreWe Either Lie About Them or Omit Them
And, according to Indian friends, there are strong tribal memories of the devastating 1918 flu
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