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Who is today's Rachel Carson?
Rachel Carson is often seen as the driver of the modern environmental movement. But who stands in her shoes today?
Saturday Shot: 3 Nov
A gorgeous chrysanthemum in our perennial garden.
Wandering the Web: Feminism, Reading, Thoreau Surveying, and California Water Photography
This last week has been incredibly busy, and wasn’t helped by a day spent in bed and another day spent recuperating from being in bed. … Read more
Wednesday on the Web – 19 July edition
It’s been a tough week. I’ve had to spend more days in bed than I’d like to, and am feeling the gloomy fingers of depression … Read more
Wednesday on the Web
Last week I finished reviewing Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, edited by Christie Wilcox, Bethany Brookshire and Jason G. Goldman. While it was largely written … Read more
Western Water & Forests: Spring 2016 Outlook
Last month, Dezene Huber, a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, tweeted this photo of BC’s mighty Fraser River in Prince George. Doesn’t … Read more
Safe Passage for Fish
Road crossings over streams (often constructed using a culvert) can significantly affect fish by changing stream channel morphology, constricting streamflow, and ultimately making it difficult … Read more
Becoming a Western writer
When I first read Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow, it stuck. Not just for days, but even years later I can recall the story in the … Read more
Water woes in water-rich Canada
Yesterday I had an editorial post up at Science Borealis, Canada’s science blog aggregator. It was one of those posts that you write at the … Read more
