July/August 2010
Features
Feature
Maori Eels
Text and art by James Prosek
The Maori of New Zealand seek their own renewal in the restoration of a powerful and mysterious creature.
Feature
Conservation and Eugenics
by Charles Wohlforth
Tracing the roots of environmentalism back to a very unpleasant historical truth.
Feature
Dark Horse
by Lisa Couturier
A disturbing look at the world of auctions and slaughter, where horses are flipped like real estate.
Feature
Calamity on the Colorado
Text by James Powell, photographs by Peter M. McBride
Beneath the shrinking waters of Lake Powell, a massive problem is building.
With added photos and Peter McBride's audio slideshow.
Feature
Pea Madness
by Amy Leach
On the bravery, desire, and tenderness exhibited by not necessarily commonplace plants.
This article is available in the print edition only, but click here to hear the author read this piece aloud.
Feature
Dixon Marsh
by Barry Lopez
Fiction. A nervous epidemiologist in the Sierra Nevada finds the world to be more weirdly hinged than her college-educated mind will accept.
Feature
The Mushroom's Chronicle
Paintings and text by Marlana Stoddard-Hayes
A deep exploration of both form and fungus.
Columns
Small Change
Duty Dodgers
by Bill McKibben
Congress may just be too lazy to take action on the largest problem humans have ever faced.
Upping the Stakes
Calling All Fanatics
by Derrick Jensen
How can crusaders take time out to enjoy the Earth when so few people are out there fighting?
Departments
Media & The Arts
Instead of Suns, the Earth
by Christopher Cokinos
Science fiction casts its gaze downward, toward the home planet and its sketchy future.
Coda
What It Is That Feeds Us
by BK Loren
"Coyotes are consummate illusionists...."
Reviews
The Common Man by Maurice Manning
Bloodroot by Amy Greene
Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam
The Global Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
An Entirely Synthetic Fish by Anders Halverson
Burning the Future A film by David Novack
Poetry
One Block from the Navy Yard by Jessica Greenbaum
Bell by Cecily Parks
The Frogs by Michael Hettich
Celebrate Something by Emily Wheeler
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