When my buddy Ryan came back from a six-week canoe trip through the Canadian wilderness this summer, I was lucky enough to hear a lot from some other groups from Camp Widjiwagan who had gone on other backcountry trips. A couple of the groups were women backpackers who went on insane hikes in Alaska, the [...]
you bastards
December 6, 2004
have you no sense of decency? The Bush administration on Tuesday proposed dramatically rolling back protections for salmon and steelhead trout streams from Southern California to the Canadian border, saying the rare and endangered fish are sufficiently protected in other ways.The revised plan, which was prompted by a lawsuit from the National Assn. of Homebuilders, [...]
speaking of “the wild”
December 3, 2004
when the forest service announced a new management plan for the superior national forest, i figured it would ultimately increase the amount of logging and road-building. this is the year 2004. george w. bush sits in the white house. national forests are anything but safe. nonetheless, as i’ve been reading various reports, i’ve heard the [...]