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

Cover of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental Politics by Darren Frederick Speece

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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Barkskins by Annie Proulx: An epic (and ongoing) story of extraction

Cover of Barkskins by Annie Proulx

Barkskins: A Novel Barkskins tells the intertwined and intergenerational stories of the natives and immigrants of the North American territory once known as New France. Because this novel takes place over more …

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