Rants from the Hill: The adventures of Sir Rantsalot in the dead tree forest
By Michael Branch / On June 3rd, 2015
On the virtues of cutting and burning wood.
“Rants from the Hill” is cross-posted from High Country News
This Earth Day, We Celebrate the Northwest Forest Plan
By Dominick A. DellaSala / On April 22nd, 2015
#ForewordFriday: Green and Growing Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On March 13th, 2015
Magical Thinking is Not Conservation
By Meghan Bartels / On March 10th, 2015
Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.
When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes.
#ForewordFriday: Beauty and Profit Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On February 27th, 2015
#ForewordFriday: Half for the Rest of Life Edition
By Meghan Bartels / On February 20th, 2015
Meet the Author: Q & A with ... Kennedy Warne!
By Meghan Bartels / On December 4th, 2014
In this installment of this occasional series, we hear from Kennedy Warne, author of Let Them Eat Shrimp.
The Memory of a Place
By John Rieger / On November 19th, 2014
Ecological restoration is inspirational in the sense that you connect with the earth in a new or different way. I find that I reflect on the history—or what I believe to be the history—of the place I am working. My mind wanders to how this place has gone through changes. Did a stream flow through here, were populations of deer, elk, or bison ever present? Did Native Americans alter the site, use it for supplies, harvest food?