Char Miller
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Director and W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College, and author of Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy (Oregon State University Press) and editor of Cities and Nature in the American West (University of Nevada Press). His new books for 2013 include On the Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest (Trinity University Press), Death Valley National Park: A History (University of Nevada Press), and co-edited Between Ruin and Restoration: An Environmental History of Israel.
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Posted What Do the L.A. Freeway System and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Have in Common? It's All in the Numbers
in The Back FortyThe American West has been organized around numbers, from Lewis and Clark to L.A. Freeways. -
The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
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Divesting ourselves from fossil fuels will not be easy, but we must act now.
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President Obama's inaugural address actually mentioned climate change. It's time to do something about it.
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An earlier version of this column incorrectly referred to the Red Rock National Conservation Area in Nevada as the focus of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance's campaign to secure National Monument status; it is actively pursuing that designation for Greater...
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How Pinnacles National Monument became a National Park -- and why Red Rock still waits its turn
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Commented on Razed Expectations: Why It Matters that the Army Corps Bulldozed the Sepulveda Sanctuary
in The Back FortyThanks so much for your good comments - I had intended to make the connection to the Arcadia Tree Disaster but ran out of time; it is that plumbing mentality that is so difficult to shift at times. It looks... -
Posted Razed Expectations: Why It Matters that the Army Corps Bulldozed the Sepulveda Sanctuary
in The Back FortyWhen the Army Corps sent bulldozers crashing through Sepulveda Basin it damaged nature and the civic arena -
And now, under the category of Find a Need and Fill It, comes this story from the LA Times; or why fish love Christmas trees: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-christmas-trees-20130104,0,5184304.story...
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It is a great start to the new year that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's has decided to open Southern California's waters to the once-banned sea otters.
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And wouldn't you know it, Gifford Pinchot said the same thing (oh, how I wish I had seen this NY Times article of his before writing the column!). "There is no more reason for an outcry against using land to...
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Thanks to Alex Andrus, Communications Director of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, who just sent me a NY Times article from December 12, 1909 in which Gifford Pinchot talks about the Christmas tree industry - or what he projected would...
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Thanks, Gary. The quick response is that few people keep their plastic trees for more than six years, the trees cannot be recycled, and they purchase another adding to the production and non-recyclable cycle of this unsustainable product....
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Buying a real Christmas tree will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here's why.
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Solar Power is SoCal's future -- but we need need new policies to help it come online
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How a crucial victory for preservationists and all things prehistoric gave future generations an invaluable view into the past.
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Their steadfast support for and financial backing generated a tectonic shift in the state's political landscape -- in a way that didn't help them.
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I never meant to be so predictive. In a column I wrote this summer about the extraordinary vulnerability of the Jersey Shore to the erosive force of hurricanes, I suggested it was so vulnerable because of Nature (Mother) and nature (human). Two months later, Hurricane Sandy underscored that claim.
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Char Miller remembers the late Trinity University teacher that pushed the campus into a brave new world with his Urban Studies program.
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In the Angeles National Forest. | Photo: puck90/Flickr/Creative Commons License The Angeles National Forest is poised to get the ax. There are a lot of hands gripping that particular handle, too. The National Park Service (NPS) is eager to swing...
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With the news today that Barry Commoner has just died - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20121001 - and that, amazingly, Silent Spring is 50 years old, we are acknowledging just how important the mid-20th-centiry was in establishing the current environmental agenda....
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He was deeply engaged with some of the late 20th-century's most pivotal environmental issues, and did so as a Republican stalwart -- Richard Nixon, for example, appointed him as the EPA's second administrator.
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Since the mid-19th century, Yosemite has been lauded as America's wonderland, its playground -- beguiling, transformative, divine. It is also a tourist trap. A new exhibit probes the connection between these two sides of Yosemite.
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If during this super-heated summer you have traveled to any of the electoral battleground states, you'll know that the sun-baked temperatures outside are more than matched by the ultra-hot campaign ads saturating the airwaves. And you'll understand why Patricia...
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Stephen - thanks for your response and I am looking forward to reading the book!...
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The Grand Canyon has the unnerving capacity to shut us up and a traveling exhibit has come to Southern California will help us understand why.
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Cape May, NY is a long way from Malibu, but its environmental history contains lessons for beach towns everywhere
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A good friend wrote this important correction to my claim above that the Antiquities Act and the Lacey Act were one and the same. They're not. "The Lacey Act was a criminal law enacted in 1900 as a response to...
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Politicians give lip-service to our need better to protect our place in this place; once in power they tend to ignore legislating on those matters that on the campaign trail they had assured the electorate were of heart-felt concern.
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Democrats -- and President Obama -- must stop Republicans from gutting the Antiquities Act.
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An earlier version of this column incorrectly referred to the Red Rock National Conservation Area in Nevada as the focus of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance's campaign to secure National Monument status; it is actively pursuing that designation for Greater...
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Commented on Razed Expectations: Why It Matters that the Army Corps Bulldozed the Sepulveda Sanctuary
in The Back FortyThanks so much for your good comments - I had intended to make the connection to the Arcadia Tree Disaster but ran out of time; it is that plumbing mentality that is so difficult to shift at times. It looks... -
And now, under the category of Find a Need and Fill It, comes this story from the LA Times; or why fish love Christmas trees: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-christmas-trees-20130104,0,5184304.story...
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And wouldn't you know it, Gifford Pinchot said the same thing (oh, how I wish I had seen this NY Times article of his before writing the column!). "There is no more reason for an outcry against using land to...
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Thanks to Alex Andrus, Communications Director of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation, who just sent me a NY Times article from December 12, 1909 in which Gifford Pinchot talks about the Christmas tree industry - or what he projected would...
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Thanks, Gary. The quick response is that few people keep their plastic trees for more than six years, the trees cannot be recycled, and they purchase another adding to the production and non-recyclable cycle of this unsustainable product....
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With the news today that Barry Commoner has just died - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/us/barry-commoner-dies-at-95.html?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20121001 - and that, amazingly, Silent Spring is 50 years old, we are acknowledging just how important the mid-20th-centiry was in establishing the current environmental agenda....
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Stephen - thanks for your response and I am looking forward to reading the book!...
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A good friend wrote this important correction to my claim above that the Antiquities Act and the Lacey Act were one and the same. They're not. "The Lacey Act was a criminal law enacted in 1900 as a response to...
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thanks so much, Yoli!...
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Posted What Do the L.A. Freeway System and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Have in Common? It's All in the Numbers
in The Back FortyThe American West has been organized around numbers, from Lewis and Clark to L.A. Freeways. -
The CCC built up the nation and the body politic -- can ObamaCorps do the same thing?
-
Divesting ourselves from fossil fuels will not be easy, but we must act now.
-
President Obama's inaugural address actually mentioned climate change. It's time to do something about it.
-
How Pinnacles National Monument became a National Park -- and why Red Rock still waits its turn
-
Posted Razed Expectations: Why It Matters that the Army Corps Bulldozed the Sepulveda Sanctuary
in The Back FortyWhen the Army Corps sent bulldozers crashing through Sepulveda Basin it damaged nature and the civic arena -
It is a great start to the new year that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's has decided to open Southern California's waters to the once-banned sea otters.
-
Buying a real Christmas tree will help reduce your carbon footprint. Here's why.
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Solar Power is SoCal's future -- but we need need new policies to help it come online
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How a crucial victory for preservationists and all things prehistoric gave future generations an invaluable view into the past.
