An author speaks on growing up black in 1990s Portland and countering his city’s hipster image.
Interview
Posted inSeptember 14, 2015: Close Ties in Big Landscapes
Writing beyond the reservation stereotype
A Native author creates characters who are making a life in the urban West.
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Jonathan Thompson talks methane leaks with KDNK Radio
Researchers are trying to find the source of emissions in the Four Corners region.
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An interview with the first African-American president of the Sierra Club
Aaron Mair hopes to shift the club’s mission toward policies that better include the needs and values of minorities.
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KDNK Radio and HCN editor Jodi Peterson talk sage grouse
The greater sage grouse is at the center of the biggest experiment in the history of the Endangered Species Act.
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Scarcity and survival reign in ‘The Water Knife’
A conversation with Paolo Bacigalupi about climate fiction, the power of water and his new novel.
Posted inAugust 12, 1991: West's grand old water doctrine dies
Charles Wilkinson crows over the corpse of the West’s traditional approach to water
A eulogy of an old scourge and warning against a new one.