Protesting the Jordan Cove natural gas facility and its pipeline brings an environmental writer and a rancher together.
Emma Marris
Posted inArticles
Where there’s smoke, there’s suffering
The small, sad harms of a summer spent indoors to avoid wildfire smoke.
Posted inFebruary 6, 2017: River of Healing
How to see the urban wild
Practical advice for the nature-lonely city-dweller.
Posted inJanuary 23, 2017: For Which it Stands
Why OR7 is a celebrity
Once wolf populations fully recover, we’ll no longer know the story of individual animals.
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
How to redefine — and defend — wilderness
A review of a new way to look at what’s wild and what’s not, in Jason Mark’s ‘Satellites in the High Country’ and Fred Pearce’s ‘The New Wild.’
Posted inSeptember 19, 2011: Redemption
The mirage of pristine wilderness
One summer day, I went with my father and daughter to Schmitz Park in West Seattle, famous for being among the only chunks of old-growth forest within city limits. A few urban noises penetrated the 50-acre park, mostly airplanes and boat horns. But it was markedly quiet — and beautiful. The turf was springy with […]