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Book Review: Entangled Life

December 15, 2024April 5, 2024 by John Yunker

Funny the difference a word makes. Restaurants generally don’t advertise “fungi” on their menus. But “mushrooms” and “truffles” are a different story. Even though they are the same thing. Which …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Random House, Trees, What we're reading

Book Review: Living in the Time of Red Flag Warnings

December 28, 2023August 3, 2023 by John Yunker

It’s fire season here in southern Oregon. Which is another way of way of saying it’s just another season here in southern Oregon. Over the past decade fires have become …

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Categories Anthropocene, Bloomsbury, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Nonfiction, Pollution, What we're reading

Halcyon Journey: Searching for Kingfishers

June 30, 2022June 28, 2022 by John Yunker

Kingfishers are birds more often heard than seen. Walk next to Bear Creek here in the Rogue Valley and you will probably hear them, though seeing them is not so …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press

Residency opportunities for writers in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico

March 14, 2022February 13, 2022 by John Yunker

We’ve mentioned these amazing residencies in the past but deadlines are coming up for the year ahead and I wanted to mention them again — also since I suspect many …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Residency, Writing Opportunities

One Long River of Song

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

Notes on Wonder By Brian Doyle Little, Brown and Co, 2019 During that small window of time this year when it seemed safe enough to travel abroad, this book was …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Nonfiction, PNW, What we're reading

Sitka Center now accepting residency applications

February 8, 2021 by John Yunker

Located north and west of us here in Ashland, Oregon, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology provides educational courses and residencies to artists. And they’re now open for residency …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, For Writers, Oceans, Sustainability, Trees, Wolves, Writing Opportunities, Writing Residency

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

Waterston Desert Writing Prize Open for Submissions

January 7, 2019 by John Yunker

I’m pasting below a unique writing opportunity: The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2019 is now open for submissions. Applicants must submit online via Submittable through April 1,2019. The Prize honors …

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Categories Conservation, Contest, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

BirdNote: Chirp-sized bird stories from the popular radio show

September 29, 2019May 29, 2018 by John Yunker

Here in Ashland, Oregon, I listen to our local radio station KSKQ. And for the past several years I’ve enjoyed the weekly, two-minute BirdNote programs. So I was excited to find …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, Sasquatch Press

The Overstory: An arboreal love story (and lament)

October 14, 2020May 16, 2018 by John Yunker

When we started EcoLit Books five years ago, this was the type of book I had in mind. A novel that places nature in its proper place in relation to …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Trees, W. W. Norton & Company

Upcoming writer and artist opportunities at PLAYA

December 27, 2016 by John Yunker

PLAYA, a creative residency program in Summer Lake, Oregon, is organizing two exciting artist+scientist opportunities for next year: Confluence of Creative Inquiry: Climate Change Communication Residency July 3-4, 2017 Art + …

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Categories Education, Events, For Writers, Writing Opportunities
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