When Jonathan Schell published his anti-nuclear argument, The Fate of the Earth, in 1982, one of his main arguments against nuclear proliferation was that the destruction of life on earth would render all life […]
Stopping a River Dead in Its Tracks
Wild Life on the Hanford Reach
Here is a basic guide to life in the Hanford Reach, the last free-flowing (note: not wild, just free flowing) stretch of the American stretch of the Columbia River. First, the security […]
Nuclear Apples at Hanford Town
The last free-flowing part of the American stretch of the Columbia River takes place in the former Hanford Engineering District, managed by the US Army from 1943 onward in order to produce […]
The Science Fiction Universe
A river isn’t exactly water. Sometimes it’s this: Some of the 2004 Process Tubes on the Front Face of B Reactor in Hanford An excellent way to turn a river into […]
The Real Old West
When the US Army cleared all White settlers, drifters, and missionaries out of Washington Territory during the Yakima War (1855-1858), many of them ended up at Fort Colville, at Kettle Falls on the […]
Another Preying Mantis
I went up onto Turtle mountain today, to explore an ancient stone eagle. And who did I find? Preying Mantis, Turtle Mountain Sculptural Assemblage She’s half the size of […]
Real Estate Hangover
Tired of the colour of your lawn? The Colour of Lawn Fertilizer The perfect blend of golf course, Eastern Canadian bedrock, and Arizona. Good for selling houses, but then you wake up […]
Just the Right Number of Trees
In the grasslands, one is enough. One Ponderosa Pine Perfect It gives ants a world, lightning a chance to grab onto something (lightning likes that), deer a dry bed, and birds a […]
Returning from the Fire
The fire burns through, turning the land to dust and ash, and then, a month later, at the end of summer, it’s spring. Bunchgrass Coming Back All I can say is, it […]
There is No Such Thing as Wilderness (Unless We Make it So)
In a land that was heavily populated and culturally farmed for 6000 years, only in the last 160 years, the time of European, American and Canadian colonization, has there been wild life. […]
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