“So Shines a Good Deed” gives incomplete coverage to solar energy development and presents only one view of a rather complicated situation (HCN, 12/26/16). Both the federal government and the article cited are avid promoters of industrial-scale solar development on public lands. In California, the total solar energy produced from installations on parking lot structures, […]
Craig Deutsche
Posted inMarch 21, 2016: Making Sense of Malheur
Getting beyond yes or no
The Feb. 22 article “Fractured” corresponded in several ways with my own experience in dealing with management issues at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Southern California. In the course of an oral history project, I interviewed a great many ranchers who were often unhappy about the restrictions placed upon grazing. On a number of […]
Posted inFebruary 19, 2007: One nation, under fire
Does this mean you’ll renew your subscription?
I congratulate you and author Emma Brown on the recent article “Under the Radar.” Many, perhaps most, of your articles relate controversies that involve high-stakes battles between corporations, government entities, environmental organizations, or landowners. This story is a human one that transcends our differences. This is not a news report that you have published, but […]