Adam M. Sowards — Taking Bearings

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When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry

"When You Know the Price of a Huckleberry," Weber – The Contemporary West 38, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 110-18. My students sit next to me and Big Creek, on cut logs, because they believe Thoreau remains correct a century and a half later. The universe is the classroom; schoolrooms

Passenger Pigeons, Democracy, and a Future to Seize

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. Forty-three years later, in 1947, a monument memorialized the extinct pigeons in Wyalusing State Park in Wisconsin at the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers, just south of Prairie du Chien. The state’s most famous conservationist,

How the Once-Radical Endangered Species Act Was Weakened

"Reckoning with History: How the once-radical Endangered Species Act was weakened," High Country News (November 16, 2018). Reckoning with History: How the once-radical Endangered Species Act was weakened - High Country NewsThe ESA started out strong, but opponents have chipped away at the landmark law.High Country NewsAdam