Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Exactly a year ago, Ellen Wohl, @parriblue.bsky.social and I spent two days in Providence thinking about #rivers and how we conceptualize them & live with them. Here’s the result of history and fluvial geomorphology teaming up. #envhist doi.org/10.1371/jour...

I’m so excited and honored for this upcoming talk & events at Oxford, some with an amazing lineup of other Arctic folks!

So far, the administration's Alaska agenda is still a lot of bluster and not a lot of action. Great reporting from @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org

I’m so excited to talk about this great book with Joseph Lee tomorrow. If you’re in Providence, come by!

In case you’re free in July and want to spend a week on the Yukon… freeflowinstitute.com/product/rive...

Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

“what happens if we also reconnect with the mule? What can mules teach us about the black history of land and violence in the United States?” A terrific piece of #envhist on mules, labor, and how “empire doesn’t always win” from @roguechieftan.bsky.social www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...

This year I wrote a book about how Columbus colonized the Caribbean in 1492 - not what is now the US mainland. My book DARK LABORATORY celebrates Kalinago survivance and the African agrarian x aquatic traditions people like my ancestors, who were enslaved, brought to the region.

I’m very lucky to work with Myles, and am so excited to hear him talk about his amazing new book in a few weeks!

Something good: a new, nonprofit newsroom run by some wonderful, experienced folks (core crew from Outside mag's glory days) dedicated to journalism about American public lands! Looks like the plan is to collaborate a fair bit with other outlets.

Alaska reentry has its ups and downs but amazing reads are an up.

“The Yukon River has a right to feed its own animals & its land.” Alaska Natives are fighting for the right to manage the Yukon River & save the remaining salmon stocks for future generations, before their way of life dies off with the salmon, Alyssa Choiniere reports.

Alaska Natives, barred from king salmon fishing, fight for their right to manage the Yukon River, reports Alyssa Chioniere for @prismreports.org via @alaskabeacon.com

I guarantee that you're not going to do anything better today than to carefully read this essay on dogs, salmon, and mushing (which, like all good essays, is really an inquiry into existence) by @brdemuth.bsky.social in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social. Extraordinary. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social on the future of sled dogs in the Yukon River valley

Beautiful writing. Important message. From @brdemuth.bsky.social for @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Really beautiful piece by @brdemuth.bsky.social. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.” An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love #envhist #rivers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

“Deep relationship is a sensation of the particular, held in the eager tilt of a lead dog’s ears before a run or the feel of an old scar left by a salmon’s tooth.” An essay on the mighty but sometimes overlooked chum salmon & dogs & rivers & love #envhist #rivers www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

It’s a strange time to be in Alaska and yet here’s the morning run view

SOON!! Getting antsy for Alaska rivers. So glad to be teaching on the Yukon again this year.

This interview is the second in a set— I had the huge pleasure of talking with Gabe Rosenberg before he interviewed me, about his work on industrial agriculture. Still thinking about the feathers he’s found in archives. www.publicbooks.org/public-think...

New at PB: In the latest in our Public Thinker series, Gabriel N. Rosenberg interviews Bathsheba Demuth (@brdemuth.bsky.social) about her book "Floating Coast," which narrates the Arctic not as an edge, but as a center.

What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!

“In ecological terms, their presence makes the land home to more life, in both kind and quantity. A beaver lodge marks a diffuse, vital abundance.” Loved @brdemuth.bsky.social’s account of the echoes of the Yukon fur trade. granta.com/where-the-la...

Today in daylily

Fortunately this seems to be a badly communicated change to parking lot access, not to the archives themselves.

This is grim: On “July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public.” “Legitimate” is not defined. www.archives.gov/college-park

In whale news, orcas have been spotted grooming each other with kelp. Researchers saw “a whale remove a 2ft section of bull kelp, balance it on its nose and then approach another whale to wedge the kelp between their bodies and rub it between them.” 🐋 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In England “wood with beaver facets [were found] in multiple human constructions, along with extensive networks of ancient beaver dams and channels that had been integrated into prehistoric settlements.” A fascinating piece by Sarah Newman on how animals inspired culture 🦫 aeon.co/essays/did-a...

Art by Ray Troll, sentiment by millions…..

My entire strategy for dealing with These Times is ripping up sod and planting wildflowers, and the Sinners soundtrack. And dogs.

A very exciting galley has landed @lancerichardson.bsky.social !

A great thread on really important new research about bowhead whale vulnerability to climate change 🐋🐋🐋

Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉 #envhist #envhum

Hello all, Thrilled to share this new blog that came out today! It builds on a paper that more fully explains the thoughts behind the diagram, but sought to make things a bit easier to understand through a visual. #Indigenous #race #ethnicity #identity #colonization #decolonization #sovereignty

Yesterday was an extremely good mail day — perfect timing as it was official pub day for @sprucehen.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous new book 💕❄️🎉 #envhist #envhum

"'Becoming Earth' is at its core an ode to life’s ability to adapt, transform, and create the conditions for its own flourishing." @brdemuth.bsky.social reviews Ferris Jabr's 2024 book: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

In a spring full of various dreads, reviewing this book from @ferrisjabr.bsky.social was a joy

“We've seen it so many times, that these big corporations come in and they take and take..said Rhonda Pitka..What will we end up with at the end of all this?” Great to see reporting on new oil wells in the Yukon Flats—drilling from a company known for spills www.northernjournal.com/above-the-yu...

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

#PVDlocal: Undercover DHS agents are driving the following vehicles: Silver Jeep 4x4, License 501240 Silver Nissan Murano License 1MF648 They arrested somebody today. If you see these plates around PVD/Pawtucket/CF, or see ICE/DHS harassments or arrests, call 401-675-1414, the RI ICE watch hotline.

In case you need a moment beyond the current chaos, here are narwhals playing with their food 🐋 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/s...

@ericajberry.bsky.social on time and the change it brings—on loss at scale and at home & how we move with it. I was lucky enough to read an early iteration of this, so extra special to see it in print. emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-fa...

Who wants to commission me to review these two

“When I think of the race, I think of the sight of a distant dog team, looking like nothing more than a low set of shadows running below the tall, sandy cliffs that hem in the river.” A beaut from @evaholland.bsky.social on what a lack of deep cold means for mushing. defector.com/whats-the-yu...

“When I think of the race, I think of the sight of a distant dog team, looking like nothing more than a low set of shadows running below the tall, sandy cliffs that hem in the river.” A beaut from @evaholland.bsky.social on what a lack of deep cold means for mushing. defector.com/whats-the-yu...

Good to see Google still has some sense

A quick break from the windowless North Pacific Fisheries Management Council meetings to go watch some sea ice glide by the frost