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Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 4: The Snake River Plain Aquifer

Eric Jan 29, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Crow Creek, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Nez Perce War, Otis Gold, Snake River Plain Aquifer, The Decemberists, Yellowstone NP

Love Letters Again, Still By now, it may or may not be clear that each Part of the Downstream Effects series is a love letter that is also a sword

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 3: Nez Perce National Historical Park

Eric Jan 20, 2021 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Colonialism, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, Otis Gold, The Dying Grass, William T. Vollmann, Yellowstone NP

This third part of our series on the Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project – which could just as easily, and perhaps more persuasively, be named Reasons To Oppose The

Parmenides in the Panhandle

Eric Apr 20, 2020 Joshua Tree NP, Oklahoma, Parmenides, Philosophy

I have not read Proust (although Swann’s Way is a paperweight for me just now, trying to flatten some poems whose edges can’t help but curl up), and so don’t

wildlife overpasses could save millions of lives each year like these bighorn sheep

If wildlife overpasses could speak: save the best for Idaho’s US-20

Alex Jan 31, 2019 Environmental, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat Corridor, Idaho, Roads, Wildlife Crossing, wildlife overpasses, Yellowstone NP

For 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

Kilgore Project will devastate these grizzlies

#Kill the Kilgore Project Before It Kills Our Grizzlies

Alex Feb 01, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Americans, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Environmental, Forest Service, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Leave No Trace, Mining, Outdoor Recreation, Politics, Rhetoric, Roads, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

Archived Campaign that Ended on Feb. 9, 2018. We have a more thorough and updated article for the 2021 Kilgore Project Proposal accepting comments through Feb 11, 2021. The Kilgore Project

A Master Course in the Macabre in Idaho’s Beaverheads

Eric Jan 22, 2018 Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Bear Bait, Beaverhead Mountains, Birch Creek Valley, Camille Saint Saens, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, David Lynch, Fossils, Geomorphology, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, limestone, Macabre, Montana, Mountain Drainages, Peak Bagging, Ridgeline, Rocky Mountains, Scott Peak, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, Spencer, Stone, Targhee National Forest, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

From Late June through July of 2017, Alex and I were engaged in a near-300-mile through-hike of eastern Idaho’s mountain ranges. We began at Biscuit Basin in Yellowstone National Park

Grizzly bear paw prints next to Oboz hiking boot

Bear Tracks Dilemma

Alex Jan 12, 2018 #goodbearhavior, Backpacking, Backpacking Idaho, Bear, Centennial Mountains, Effable backpacking, Environmental, Grizzly Bears, Hiking, Idaho, Leave No Trace, National Parks, Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Recreation Ethics, Roads, Rocky Mountains, Wilderness, Yellowstone NP

A Bear Dilemma, Clearly On the day of the above photograph, Eric and I had been backpacking 20 miles across the Continental Divide, up and down the ridgeline and

Celebrating the Abusive Father

Eric Jan 08, 2018 Abuse, Abusive Male, Brie Larson, Denzel Washington, Fathers, Fences (film), Film, Hollywood, Joshua Tree, Joshua Tree NP, Naomi Watts, National Parks, The Glass Castle, Viola Davis, Violence, Woody Harrelson

The Abusive Fathers of Fences and The Glass Castle Fences (2016) and The Glass Castle (2017) are two recent examples of beautiful, emotionally charged filmmaking. Both focus on the troubled and

Political Borders and Tossed Stones

Eric Jan 04, 2018 Big Bend NP, National Parks, Political Border, River, Stone, Texas, Thrown Stone

Deep inside Big Bend National Park, on the Wild and Scenic shores of the Rio Grande, it’s hard to tell the two countries apart: the United States and Mexico. From

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Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 4: The Snake River Plain Aquifer

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 3: Nez Perce National Historical Park

Parmenides in the Panhandle

If wildlife overpasses could speak: save the best for Idaho’s US-20

#Kill the Kilgore Project Before It Kills Our Grizzlies

A Master Course in the Macabre in Idaho’s Beaverheads

Bear Tracks Dilemma

Celebrating the Abusive Father

Political Borders and Tossed Stones