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A Secret Fishing Spot on the Oregon Coast
Yesterday I remembered Slim Bracken, lifelong logger and one of my best fishing buds who died recently after falling off his bike. Slim was one of those rare anglers who combined great jokes, local knowledge, and uncommon generosity giving me “first casts” through new water. Last year, at age 79, he drove Suz “on a quiet…
With Joy and Sadness I Write This . . .
Joy: Northwest Fishing Reports published my latest article, “The Slide Technique,” and between now and April 30 I should catch another 20 to 30 steelhead if it’s a normal year. After that is spring chinook season, my favorite fish and time of year. Sadness: Bob Lackey, Professor of Fisheries at Oregon State University, emailed me a…
The Guardian: “‘Our leaders are like children,’ school strike founder tells climate summit”
July 27, 2019 updated video below (first video). July 10, 2019, I updated this story here. June 24, 2019 Update: 60 Minutes posted a longer video of the story The climate change lawsuit that could stop the U.S. government from supporting fossil fuels. January 2, 2019 Update: UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Finds in…
“Born Was the Mountain” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder in Emergence Magazine
This morning I read one of my favorite articles about Hawai’i which is also a podcast. It reminded me of when I worked for Greenpeace, and helped San Carlos Apache fight telescopes from being placed on Mt. Graham in Arizona. Here is an epigraph from a poem I wrote about it “Later, when I ask…
“Thousands of [Australian] students join climate protest”
Here is a related short poem from my forthcoming book Carbonfish Blues: Recycle politicians into nameless moonfish inside their mothers, teachers into students of students, businessmen into birds saving skies flying places thought impossible.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Masters of Advanced Studies in Climate Science and Policy (MAS CSP) Early Consideration Deadline is January 8, 2019
Corey J. Gabriel, Ph.D., J.D., the Program’s Executive Director, wrote “Basically, we are training students to have a strong grounding in both policy and climate science to then go into local, state and national climate policy (and energy, environment al etc.) positions and actually understand all of the important things happening, both on the science…
The Guardian: “Climate change ‘will inflict substantial damages on US lives’”
It’s like we’re on a ship headed for a bleached coral reef, and scientists and activists are unable to persuade captains to change course to avoid major impact that will increase suffering beyond what these captains, and publics they serve, can imagine. Today’s issue of The Guardian has an article by Oliver Milman noting “‘without significant…
Yale Climate Connections: “How do I break bad news about climate change?”
Many of my friends and colleagues wish I read this article long ago. As with climate solutions, better late than never. In last night’s Honors Climate Change Poetry Seminar, I used this Soylent Green film scene “Sol Goes Home” with the poetry prompt “Letter to the Future.” In other words, some solutions are better than…
losangeles.cbslocal.com: “Woolsey Fire [ . . .] Forces Evacuation Of 265,000”
losangeles.cbslocal.com: “Woolsey Fire [ . . .] Forces Evacuation Of 265,000”