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Atmospheric River Blues

Wildfire’s are as predictable now as atmospheric river’s and who ever heard of those atmospheric demons until now—

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Cry Me a River

Did I mention instant gratification seems to be almost as popular as smartphones—?

Don’t Look Down

Fat Cats unbolted the Schwinn Bicycle Factory and sent it lock, stock and barrel to China.

climate’s cosmic joyride

There was this bizarre-Apocalypse Now- sense of going upriver hunting for a Brando gone wildfire mad.

the scorching truth arrives

Much of what appears to be the disintegration of the Republican Party is perhaps simply a tantrum thrown by the fossil fuel lobby.

Quarreling for a Water Fight

Irrigation water isn’t available in Southern Oregon this year. Klamath County’s farmers rolled the meteorological dice and won a drought. On the California side of the border on the easternmost edge of Siskiyou County matters are the same. Each state operates under a different set of rules, then you layer in the federal government and […]

fixing leaky faucets

If we were to decide salmon are expendable, then we’ve in some toxicologically bizarre way just admitted that we are expendable

Buckets of Rain Buckets of Tears

Last summer’s monsoons in the Southwest last went missing . Last weeks Southern Colorado-Northern New Mexico snowfall in the headwaters to the Rio Grande while welcomed offered little relief. Most of New Mexico is in severe drought. Reservoirs in Marin County, California are so low water agencies are within a week of enacting mandatory conservation […]

cedar city water grabbers

…every squirrel, rattlesnake and icemaking machine from the Mexican border to the Boise, Idaho needs more water.

autumn backroad east

I’m a roadrunner baby Running the southern route adds two-hundred miles to the trip to Denver. Once I’d made Bakersfield, I parked at a truck stop, slept there for the night. Sunday, I made five hundred miles east to Williams, Arizona. A local tipped me off to a free campground operated by the Bureau of […]