There are visions sometimes in the middle of a summer’s day that can only happen in the woods. I was on the banks of a pond off Mount Tremper, in the Catskill Mountains of New York, with my daugh
Month: July 2022
Latest Loathsome Antics of the Nature Conservancy, or, Why you can’t trust corporate prostitutes to be environmentalists (Grist.org, June 2022)
More than 150 conservation, environmental, and social justice organizations have accused The Nature Conservancy of “promoting false climate solutions.” A logging truck enters a wood-pel
“Logging-for-wildlife” — the new trick in the timber industry’s playbook (National Geographic, March 2022)
(Originally published at National Geographic under the title, “Is Clearcutting U.S. Forests Good for Wildlife?“) Coming upon a clear-cut in an old forest is a jolting experience. Trees
The Sane Society (Counterpunch, May 2022)
“The fact that millions of people share…so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same mental pathology does not make these people san
The Business of Scenery (Harper’s Magazine, April 2021)
Amusement Parks — Harper’s Magazine, April 2021 (pdf)