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Before the Flood, DiCaprio’s Climate Change Documentary, Will Be Free for a Week Starting Oct. 30
DiCaprio used Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights as a metaphor for human-caused climate change. National Geographic Channel reported “Watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s three-year journey exploring the subject of climate change, Before the Flood, free on all platforms the same day it premieres on the National Geographic Channel [Sunday, Oct. 30].” Huffington Post noted it will be…
Allegedly Edible Fungi, Chasing Ice, and Hurricane Sandy
Fall in Oregon is mushroom season. Above is a table of lobsters, chanterelles, porcini, and assorted. A remnant of Typhoon Songda (2016) was forecast for Oregon on October 15 when these were harvested. On Friday October 21 I showed James Balog’s film Chasing Ice at my college. Eighteen people arrived to see it, the Democracy Now! video…
Yellowtail in Mexico, and Climate Questions / Answers
Yesterday I enjoyed catching seven yellowtail (kept four) on the Tribute which had excellent deckhands and fine captains. The captains were helpful, experienced, spoke to anglers as individuals, and found huge schools of fish. On the overnight trip back to San Diego, I had discussions about climate change which will be presented as questions and…
The Art of the Raft
Two summer steelhead I caught on a raft trip Thanks to Northwest Fishing Reports for publishing my article “The Art of the Raft.” Tomorrow morning I will be back in Washington and Oregon chasing fall chinook, coho, and summer steelhead! On Sept. 28, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., you may want to attend a free…
Last Day Fish
Right before I left Washington and Oregon to teach creative writing in San Diego, a summer steelie ignited my spinner.
Lost Salmon (Published), Hawk on Wire: Ecopoems (Fomite Will Publish in 2017), A Creek I Never Fished (Started)
My new book of fishing/eco-poems from MoonPath arrived. Click here to order. I’m grateful to Jennifer Williams for great cover art, and to Thomas Rain Crowe, Frank Amato, Jon Broderick, Henry Hughes, David Joy, Marty Sherman, Jack Driscoll, and Larry Gavin for helpful blurbs. Honey Goat With Baby Goat Reaching for clouds or fly line?…
Desert Time Machine
I found desert creeks with healthy redsides. I had to drive forever but didn’t see another angler. It is possible to go back hundreds or thousands of years to pristine waters if you’re serious about it — dirt roads, unmarked side roads, some wrong turns. Regarding going back in time, the Ghost of Galileo visited…
PLAYA Climate Change Discussion July 7, 2016
Another Wild Rainbow Paintbrush Lupine Wood Worm Jason Box, Greenland ice climatologist and professor at The Geologic Survey of Denmark, said at PLAYA two nights ago out of the ten possible scenarios on climate change, nine result in loss of society as we know it. Reflecting on this, I drove to a trout stream and…
Climate Change Residency at PLAYA
My cabin for the month of July. Here’s a clue. Wild Rainbow I’m enjoying my July residency at PLAYA working on my third book of eco-poems Chewaucan Wars. According to Flyfisher’s Guide to Oregon, Chewaucan “is a Native American name meaning ‘place of the potato.’” My book is about Oregon and the coming resource wars…
Nary a Fish Gets Past Honey Goat
Honey Goat Two we caught yesterday. Suz and I caught late-season springers in Oregon. Thanks to John Wilkens this morning for publishing a poetry interview with me in The San Diego Union-Tribune. I pasted the poem I mentioned in the interview below. My new book Lost Salmon was just finished at MoonPath Press, and cover…