Tag Archives: salmon
The Water Remembers
The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis tells the story of her Indigenous family’s fight against the US and California governments and powerful corporations to save the Klamath River, its salmon runs, and themselves. It’s an inspiring multigenerational memoir of perseverance in the face of injustice, betrayal, violence and genocide. Continue reading
Undammed
Most books about the environment or climate change catalog the disastrous state of our world but dangle a morsel of hope at the end. Undammed, a book about dam removal in the United States, describes real progress, genuine restoration, and actual healing of the land and its people. Continue reading
Advancing the Rights of Nature
I’m pleased to share that a paper I wrote for a class on environmental law was published last month by the American Indian Law Journal. Continue reading
The Trees Are Speaking
The Trees Are Speaking is a wonderful book about the old-growth salmon forests of Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island and Maine and about the people trying save them. It explores the beautiful yet surprising connection between trees and salmon that sustains these forests and may very well help sustain us too. Continue reading
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid
We know that climate change is having a devastating impact on our planet: rising sea levels, more intense forest fires, more frequent and more powerful storms. We also know that many plant and animal species are going extinct or suffering … Continue reading
Finding the Mother Tree
I’m not much of a hiker or outdoors person, but I’ve done enough walking through the forests of the Pacific Northwest to appreciate their beauty and complexity. I kind of knew, in a vague abstract way, that the trees and … Continue reading
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