Sense of (Dis)place
Jon Christensen threw the bomb and plenty of people registered the blast. “Muir’s a dead end,” he told L.A. Times reporter Louis Sahagun...
Here We Are Now
I’m old enough to not quite take it for granted that as I type this on a laptop, eventually to hit “send,” I am thus speeding written...
Into the Wilderness
Last night I wrangled a Litquake event in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act made great by the writers who joined me and...
Carry a Torch
“Many Native people would say this needs to be burned.” Rob Cuthrell, having just the weekend before become a newly minted doctor of...
Wrestling Climate Change to the Ground
This originally appears in the July issue of Bay Nature, which is a fantastic magazine I highly recommend subscribing to! The view east...
A Statistical Inquiry Into Vincent Van Gogh
A vegetation map models the climatic water deficit around Pepperwood Preserve over the last 30 years. (Stuart Weiss, TBC3) This is a blog...
Dig Deeper
Over the past couple of months I’ve been immersed in researching and writing a piece on indigenous burning practices, particularly in...
Sleeping with the Enemy
It’s strange to see a subject you know a lot about treated by another journalist. “Green is Good,” T.D. Max’s story mostly about The...
Facts of Life
“What is citizen science?” I’m at my desk in San Francisco, on a conference call. Surrounded by books and papers and a cup of cold...
Fake Fights About Big Forces
Oh dear, I thought this morning upon reading “Is the Wolf a Real American Hero?,” an op-ed piece in the New York Times by Arthur...
