September/October 2010
Features
Feature
The Economics of Estuary
by Ginger Strand
Is free-market environmentalism the solution or the problem?
Feature
Working the Line
Photographs by David Taylor Text by Luis Alberto Urrea
Ride shotgun with the U.S. Border Patrol and forget what you thought you knew about the men in green.
Feature
New Dog in Town
by Christopher Ketcham Photographs by Trish Carney
Coyotes are moving into the city, adopting urban habits, and in New York they seem to like golf.
Feature
Specimens
Art and text by Amanda Keller Konya
Portraits of America's most polluted river, bottled and tagged as evidence.
Feature
Portraits from the Oil Sands
Photographs and text by Jon Lowenstein
Picture Essay: the scramble for oil in northeastern Alberta is not just an ecological tragedy.
Feature
Scorpion Ranch
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
On a sheep ranch on an island off the Southern California coast, lamb is a business, and entrée, and a curse.
Feature
Desert Hoop
by Alex Schiebel
Following wild plants by covered wagon around the deserts of the Northwest is anything but quaint.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
The Whole Fracking Enchilada
by Sandra Steingraber
The latest technique for extracting natural gas trumps every other environmental assault.
Outside In
Operation Green Hunt
by Jay Griffiths
An assault on forest peoples that will take down the forests as well.
Upping the Stakes
World Gone Mad
by Derrick Jensen
If you survey the symptoms, the verdict is clear.
Departments
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this newly revived department of the magazine, we offer a space for people to exercise their sixth sense and tell us about their place, their connection to it, its history and future and imaginary life. It's a new web feature as well. In this issue: Sandra D. Lynn on Albuquerque, New Mexico; Angela Cannon-Crothers on The Finger Lakes, New York; Kristen Clapper Bergsman on Seattle, Washington; Cassandra Schiffler on Lucky Peak Dam in Boise, Idaho; and Nerine Dorman, on Cape Peninsula, South Africa. a
Media & The Arts
Redemption Songs
by Erik Reece
Can music save mountains? Emmylou Harris is determined to find out.
Media & The Arts
Redemption Songs
by Erik Reece
Coda
On Cold-Weather Vegetables
by Katrina Vandenberg
This article is not published online, but we are pleased to make available this audio of the author reading her short essay.
Reviews
Packing for Mars, by Mary Roach
Brilliant, by Jane Brox
A California Bestiary, by Rebecca Solnit and Mona Caron
Memory Wall, by Anthony Doerr
Two Books on Geoengineering Climate,
How to Cool the Planet by Jeff Goodell
Hack the Planet by Eli Kintisch
Deep Blue Home, by Julia Whitty
Hack the Planet, by Eli Kintisch
Poetry
Back-Lit, by Arthur Sze
The Lyre, by Dorianne Laux
By Immersion, by Rose McLarney
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