Real Intervention: Good News for Salmon
Some may recall that the BPA cut off funding for an independant scientific research group, Portland’s Fish Passage Center, based on language Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, placed in a bill in 2005. He...
View ArticleCounting Rivers
Counting Rivers I could count lives inthe rivers I’ve crossed.Burro Creek where Grandadtaught the cousins to catchminnow and waterdogs. We’dwatch them swim tight circles ina pail diving for...
View ArticleSummer Haiku for Poetry Thursday
Summer in the Pacific Northwest brought a few lines about traveling and hiking to favorite places. North Umpqua River:Rain streams pretty fish and birds.I hope all return.::Raven circles high,Granite...
View ArticleNIMBY anymore, is the response to adding radioactive waste to Hanford
Even Ron Wyden’s office sent a message (that he is “fiercely opposed” to more waste at Hanford) for the largest gathering the DOE had seen yet for this specific topic—where to site a disposal for a...
View ArticleTell the DOE What You Think About Hanford
The Oregonian reports today that Hanford Leak is a Study in Neglect. Today is the last day to tell the DOE what you think about sending more nuclear waste to Hanford (under the scoping requirements of...
View ArticleNaPoWriMo 4.04 (deb) Waterproof
I thumbed through Robin Cody’s notebook (one of seventeen, or was it twenty-seven?) made of waterproof paper. It held clear penciled print in a neat hand: What he saw-heard-smelled-tasted-touched as he...
View ArticleAn Audubon Portland Action Alert
Metro and Counties Prepares to Designate Long-term Urban and Rural Reserves. Decisions will shape regional growth for decades and determine the fate of some of the region’s critical biodiversity lands...
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From Wind Mountain looking west Last Sunday’s hike was a short one. Steep, but short and with a perfect temperature-to-breeze ratio. Probably should have added another hike onto the day, but it was...
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