Items by Kevin Taylor
A review of ‘In the Light of Justice’ by Walter Echo-Hawk
Reinventing the Garden of Eden in the Emerald City.
A former newspaper copyeditor finds his way onboard a fishing boat.
A small band of enthusiasts wants to re-engineer Western waterways with the help of a humble, hardworking professional: the beaver.
You may not want to try this at home, but Spokane writer
Kevin Taylor offers a traditional Mongolian holiday recipe –
roasted marmot.
Diesel fuel – leaking from a massive railroad
refueling depot –slips into a major drinking water aquifer on
the Idaho-Washington border.
A judge’s ruling proves you can get a free lunch
– at least, if you live in northern Idaho, and you like to
eat roadkill
The writer advises readers to bring a fork if they drive
through northern Idaho: Roadkill moose could be on the
menu
The planned Superfund cleanup of Idaho's Lake Coeur
d'Alene is taken from the EPA and given to a controversial new
local commission, although the Coeur d'Alene Tribe says it will
force the EPA to take back the project, if necessary.
At the Burning Man Festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, an eccentric city is created and then destroyed, and lives are sometimes changed along the way.
The last herd of mountain caribou in the U.S. is down to
30-some animals, and biologists and conservationists say lack of
funds stalls rescue work.
- California orders Nestlé to stop siphoning spring water
- The Colorado town that became a transgender haven
- On the Klamath River, agricultural interests are pitted against the needs of tribes and endangered species
- The toxic, soupy biomass choking water systems in California
- How activists fought Joe Arpaio’s immigration roundups
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