When I was growing up, environmentalists were the enemy. They loved the earth and hated God. At least, that’s what I was told. It wasn’t totally untrue, because somehow there had come to be a […]
Tag: Conservation
The world is not your oyster
When I was a young journalist of 25, the art director of the magazine I was a junior editor for expressed her fondness and optimism for me by telling me repeatedly, “The world is your […]
The importance of small things
Awhile ago, a group of about 20 of us spent five hours working on a habitat restoration project at the Washington Family Ranch in central Oregon. The ranch occupies 100 square miles of magnificent desert, […]