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Endangered Species

Book Review: Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics

November 8, 2019 by John Yunker

A decade ago, not long after moving to Oregon, I traveled to Jedidiah Smith Redwoods State Park where I entered an old-growth coast redwood forest for the first time. To …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Trees, University of Washington Press

What I’m reading in the New York Times

October 30, 2019 by John Yunker

A few articles that I bookmarked in the Times over the past two weeks… How Do the New Plant-Based Burgers Stack Up? We Taste-Tested Them I agree that Impossible Burgers …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Trees, Veganism, What we're reading

Writing Opportunity: The Wallace Stegner Prize in Environmental Humanities

October 16, 2019 by John Yunker
Wallace Stegner Prize

Here is an excellent opportunity presented by the University of Utah Press: The Wallace Stegner Prize will be awarded to the best monograph submitted to the Press in the broad …

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Categories Anthropocene, Awards, Book Publishers, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Endangered Species, For Writers, University of Utah Press, Writing Opportunities

Book Review: The Humane Gardener

October 7, 2019 by John Yunker

What in the world could be inhumane about gardening? Plenty, it turns out, thanks to this beautifully produced and incredibly important book by Nancy Lawson: The Humane Gardener: Nurturing a …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Birds, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Gardening, Insects, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Princeton Architectural Press, Trees, Veganism

Muri

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 by Jacki Skole

As Arctic sea ice melts, what, if any, responsibility do humans have for the animals whose very existence is threatened? It’s a question worth considering as temperatures rise and sea …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Fiction

Review: Edge of Awe: Experiences of the Malheur-Steens Country

September 29, 2019September 24, 2019 by John Yunker

Funny how a word can change on you. When I moved to Oregon nearly a decade ago, I first heard about the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, about the Steens mountain …

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Categories Birds, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press, What we're reading, Wolves

New Opportunities for Writers

September 17, 2019 by John Yunker

It’s submissions season for us writers and here are a few of particular interest to writers of environmental literature: Fire and Water Stories Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, For Writers, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Pollution, Writing Opportunities

Braiding Sweetgrass: Finding a way through environmental despair

December 26, 2020September 7, 2019 by John Yunker

At the ASLE conference earlier this summer I heard this book referenced in a number of sessions. And now, having read it, I realize why. Braiding Sweetgrass is a rich …

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Categories Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, History, Hunting, Milkweed Press, Nonfiction, Oceans, Trees

“Penguins are in trouble”

August 29, 2019 by John Yunker

This from a sobering research report published last week by some of the world’s leading experts on penguins. The report notes that “more than half of the world’s 18 penguin …

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Categories Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Oceans, Pollution, Veganism

The Emergence of Vegan Studies: Q & A with Laura Wright, author of Through a Vegan Studies Lens

August 25, 2019 by John Yunker

Laura Wright is a professor of English at Western Carolina University.  In 2015, she introduced the field of Vegan Studies through her book The Vegan Studies Project: Food, Animals, and …

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Categories Animal Rights, Conservation, Education, Endangered Species, For Writers, Oceans, Q&A, Veganism

Writing Opportunity: Terrain Contest in Poetry, Nonfiction and Fiction

July 13, 2019 by John Yunker

Terrain, one of the premier environmental journals, is now holding its 10th-annual writing contest across three genres. The judges are: Camille T. Dungy, PoetryCamille T. Dungy, the award-winning author of Trophic …

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