Aside from Donald Trump, a man named Russel Vought is probably the most powerful politician in America that few people have heard of. Vought works as Office of Management and …
Category: science
Renewable Energy Thwarted by Trump Marches On
Many Americans have come to expect that their government officials will at least give the appearance of telling the truth and basing their decisions on evidence, science and facts. Under …
Western Governor’s Association Target of Massive Protest
On Monday, June 23, at least a thousand New Mexicans gathered outside the Western Governor’s Conference to protest public land policies championed by Trump cabinet secretaries inside the Eldorado Hotel …
Wildflowers 101
flowers can pull us into the deep richness of the natural world, the basic source of our own existence
The Politics of Big Fire in the West
Climate change, on top of the abuse of forests through fire suppression, grazing and intensive logging have created the fire storms of today.
Running out of Time: COP26 and the Human Future
The COP26 climate change talks just ended in Stockholm and Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist, told the world the truth about what went on. She summed up the …
How One Man’s Disease Changed the History of New Mexico
Had J Robert Oppenheimer not gotten sick in 1922, the Manhattan project would have been sited elsewhere in the US and Los Alamos National Laboratory would never have existed in …
Forgotten Ancestors in a Sultry September
This is a hot, sultry September. I think about the hurricanes overwatering the eastern states, and the big Southwest rivers fading away with millions of people gathered at their sides …
There are no Indigenous People in the Americas
There is an unmistakable trend in progressive and environmental thinking today. All compasses point toward a focus on Indigenous people and their long experience on this continent and the discrimination …
Raking the Forest With Donald Trump and Mike Pence
We unravel the nonsense of Donald Trump’s talk about forest management and wildfire.
