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Environmental Armageddon in Cannabis Country

October 5, 2023October 5, 2023 by Ron Halvorson

“An ideological descendant of the Gold Rush, the green rush serves as yet another get-rich-quick fantasy founded on the erasure of Native People …aptly named the green rush, this surge …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, History, Nonfiction, Plants, PNW, University of Washington Press

Book Review: The Devil’s Element: A Hell of a Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into

December 28, 2023March 5, 2023 by John Yunker

While reading The Devil’s Element: Phosphorous and a World Out of Balance by Dan Egan I happened to come across this article in The New York Times about a growing …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, W. W. Norton & Company

Writing Opportunity: Michigan Quarterly Review

October 9, 2019 by John Yunker

Here’s a unique opportunity for writers of essays, fiction, poetry and, well, pretty much anything that focuses on water. Deadline is December 1st. Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) is seeking submissions …

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Categories Anthropocene, Conservation, Essays, For Writers, Oceans, Writing Opportunities

Eager: The fall and rise of the North American beaver

September 29, 2019July 30, 2018 by John Yunker

Pity the keystone species. Those animals upon which the health of so many ecosystems depend — wolves and jaguars, sharks and sea otters, to name just a few. Due in large part to …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Chelsea Green Publishing, Conservation, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Trees

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