Two Harbors Via Hite Marina
What comes next is unthinkable, but that is what is on offer, a crisis of such magnitude it blows our minds.
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Reporting from the American West
And that my friends, that’s why covering this beat will take your breath, spare ink and reams of paper away. This story is that big!
Read More Reporting from the American WestColorado River Basin Blues
And that’s why I want you to forget about alfalfa and start to imagine swimming pools. Imagine millions of swimming pools full of water getting shipped overseas…
Read More Colorado River Basin BluesCan Kicking Over— Hard Part is Here
Half-truth tellers, braggarts, and exaggerators are stealing water from Americans. Take the executive director of this outfit called the Agribusiness and Water Council of Arizona. With millions of acres farmed in Arizona less than half is dedicated to the food that ends up directly on our dinner plate while a whole lot more of the […]
Read More Can Kicking Over— Hard Part is HereTight as a Tick Dry as a Bone
If you are living in San Francisco, don’t have a car, rent an apartment, don’t have a garden, haven’t got out on a road trip, then it is likely the 20-year drought gripping the American West may well have gone unnoticed. If on the other hand you are Max Gomberg the Director over at the […]
Read More Tight as a Tick Dry as a BoneDusty Days on the Klamath
North of Yreka the Klamath River passes beneath Interstate 5 while flowing west through the Siskiyou’s to the Pacific Ocean. Over the last two decades the megadrought has pummeled the region. For 13 of the last 20 years the governors of Oregon have declared a drought emergency east of where I am standing in the […]
Read More Dusty Days on the KlamathCall for a General Strike
The ruins of Chaco Canyon give us a glimpse into the life of one of America’s earliest civilizations. There is evidence the first people prevailed as a culture and economy for 1000 years, the tribes of the desert southwest of Arizona and New Mexico thrived here. After years of abundant rain our first people were […]
Read More Call for a General StrikeSeattle’s Wet Spring
Needing a dose of the kid I hopped a flight on Southwest from Oakland to Seattle for the weekend. Here’s her new condo on Capitol Hill. Never done but always organized. This is not something she got from her dad. Last night we ate at Blotto. Lucky for me they had vegan pizza. Joint was […]
Read More Seattle’s Wet SpringThe Promised Land
This farmland is made possible entirely by irrigation and without it the land would be all tumbleweed, dry wash, and dust devils.
Read More The Promised LandGila River of Changes
But agriculture isn’t just powerful, it is invincible,
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