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Freelance Journalist Specializing in science, the environment, and the American West  
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April 13, 2010
Shafted
Published by The Atlantic.
Runoff from abandoned mines poisons Colorado's rivers. So why are environmental groups trying to stop locals from cleaning it up?

June 01, 2006
Wrecking the Rockies
Published by OnEarth.
Colorado hunting guide Laura Amos wonders if her health is an uncounted casualty of the natural-gas boom. Cited as a notable story in the Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2007, edited by Richard Preston.

November 01, 2005
Arctic Chill
Published by Audubon.
A review of Silent Snow by Marla Cone.

December 10, 2003
What's in Your Body's Chemical Cocktail?
Published by Salon.
Biomonitoring shows how humans soak up their environment.

August 19, 2003
Down on the Pharm
Published by Salon.
Colorado farmers rebel against genetically modified "pharmaceutical" crops.



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Listen to my interview with the founder of conservation biology, Michael Soule, on wolves and Colorado

Watch a slideshow and hear an interview based on my High Country News essay "Township 13 South, Range 92 West, Section 35."

Listen to my 2008 commencement address at Reed College

 

 



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