Congress must prioritize Native women through legislation

In “Restoration’s crisis of confidence” (HCN, 8/6/18), Maya Kapoor offers a thoughtful summary of current debates about the role of history in ecological restoration. Kapoor correctly describes how restorationists in the Southwest are moving away from their traditional focus on recovering historic baseline, or “reference,” conditions. Baselines have always been arbitrary and difficult to describe, […]

“Restoration’s crisis in confidence” (HCN, 8/6/18) is a breath of fresh air. For far too long not only restoration’s promoters but also the media, foundations and government agencies that fund restoration projects have ignored the movement’s inherent contradictions, as well as its failure to deliver the “restoration” that has been promised. The problem, however, is […]

Cally Carswell’s piece on life in the Southwest during aridification hit home with me, living as I do on the edge of the national forest near Santa Fe. The town sits at the base of two large national forest watersheds, both of which are heavily forested and choked with thickets of decadent trees born of […]