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
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 readingThursday March 29, 2018 I’m in the APA Hotel in Tsuruoka, Japan, up around 4:30 AM. up before the sunin the Land of the Rising Sunwhat does that make me
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 readingOur Thing I was standing inside a glass box whose walls didn’t quite reach the frosted cement below. I withered into myself, hands in the coat pockets, chin buried in
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 readingAn anecdote about my dad A while back, my dad noticed that his car had begun the curious habit of generating cigarette butts. My dad didn’t smoke. No one who
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
Continue readingBefore things get out of hand, let me state unequivocally that I support wildlife underpasses (and overpasses, fish ladders, canopy bridges, and all other infrastructural devices that unite wildlife populations
Continue readingIn 2014, so many years ago already, Alex and I had a summer full of road trips. I was based out of Lafayette, Indiana, for reasons that I will not
Continue readingThe Fickle Business of the Open Pit: 1937 – 2008 1937: Blue Ledge Company sets up underground adits, potential prospect pits, a tramway, and a foundation for a mill that
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