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Char Miller

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Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College, and among his most recent books are "Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream," "The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change," "Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy," and "Death Valley National Park: A History."

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Susan Schrepfer (left) with Forest History Society colleagues Elwood Maunder and Barbara Holman in 1975. | Photo: Courtesy of Forest History Society, Durham NC
Susan Schrepfer was a keen observer of the human interaction with nature across time, a stellar historian.
Photo of a postcard showing the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Protest.
Martin Luther King believed that if we fused social and environmental justice we'd build a more perfect union. Let's get to work.
A gray whale tail and El Segundo blue butterfly.
Protecting endangered species requires protecting their habitat. That's never easy.
Miles of aqueduct operated by the state and federal governemnt run up and down the Central Valley.
Water may flow uphill to money but what happens when the water runs out?
Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands. | Photo: Courtesy Dept. of the Inteior
President Obama used the Antiquities Act to expand the California Coastal National Monument. May it be the first of many.
A rainy March 1, 2014 at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA.
Will the current drought bring welcome change to Califonia's water policies? Let's hope so.
The Old Fire burning above the city of Highland in October 2003.
Collaboration in the San Bernardino National Forest may help restore burned-over lands.
A dry California landscape.
Like California's depleted reservoirs, Republicans' water politics keep coming up empty.
California's drought is bad, really bad. So is drought politics.
A helicopter drops water on the Waldo Fire in Colorado on June 27, 2012.
Let's hope Colorado's inaction on fire-prevention legislation doesn't turn the Centennial State into a funeral pyre.
Detail of Vargars Farms' shuttered strawberry stand in Claremont, CA. | Photo: Courtesy Judith Lipsett
Can Angelenos support infill development and still eat local-sourced strawberries?
Lower Yosemite Fall in Yosemite National Park.
Botanizing with John Muir could lead us to rip up our lawns.
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