A Second Affair If you write one love letter to a place you’ve never been to, it might be construed as endearing. Like the time I wrote a letter to
Continue readingA Second Affair If you write one love letter to a place you’ve never been to, it might be construed as endearing. Like the time I wrote a letter to
Continue readingIntroducing ScholarDay’s New Investigative Series: “Forest Service Says What?” Rewind to 2018 (oh how young we were!), the Forest Service invited us to submit how we felt about letting a
Continue readingMemories of Mud Lake I wish I had more memories of Mud Lake. In fact, I can’t honestly say that I’ve seen the lake itself or its adjacent wetlands, since
Continue readingThere is something in the water in Idaho. I suspect it might be Philadelphia. Exhibit A: Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was a poet who happened to be (unfortunately) a fascist.
Continue readingStatus of the Kilgore Project The end of 2019 has brought with its shortest-of-days some Kilgore Project-related gifts: December 18, 2019 — Advocates for the West won a ruling from
Continue reading[Stage Directions: Please listen to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 in D minor as you read this post. It is the perfect tincture of macabre and adventure.] The other morning, in
Continue readingFor the five deer killed on Idaho’s U.S. 20 in the last 48 hours. May we drag no more of your family off the asphalt. The US 20, Yellowstone’s main
Continue readingOn one particular night spent alone in a tent in the Idaho backcountry, I had a peculiar dream. I was in the basement of the house that I grew up
Continue readingWARNING: This post contains spoilers for William T. Vollmann’s The Dying Grass. It also contains spoilers for the historical event known as the Nez Perce War. If you are interested
Continue readingScholarDay has been writing recently of a proposed open pit cyanide heap leach mine proposed in the Centennial Mountains in Eastern Idaho: the Kilgore Project. We’ve talked about how the
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