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Char Miller

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Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College, and among his most recent books are "Not So Golden State: Sustainability vs. the California Dream," "The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change," "Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy," and "Death Valley National Park: A History."

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Students from John Marshall High School remove invasive Smilo grass as part of the watershed restoration project in Big Tjunga Canyon. | Photo: Courtesy Edward Belden
The Angeles National Forest is L.A.'s biggest playground. We all need to pitch in to restore it.
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How powerful is Big Ag on Capitol Hill? The Congressional Vegetarian Caucus would be glad to tell you.
Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historic Park.
Our mad-dash rush to frack oil-and-gas threatens significant cultural resources.
Mike Taugher. | Photo: @miketaugher/Twitter
California lost a principled voice in support of environmental protection and open government.
Smoke from the Mountain Fire in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Creating defensible space around communities in fire zone seems a no-brainer.
Fern Lake. | Photo: Courtesy NPS
A fire in Rocky Mountain National Park raises questions about the U.S. firefighting policies.
Fighting the 1933 Griffith Park Fire
Yarnell Hill fire reminds that we don't need a new firefighting policy.
A section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall along the Imperial Dunes.
The U.S. Senate thinks the "Border Surge" will make the country more secure.
Protestors at a No on Keystone pipeline event in November 2012.
It took him awhile to get to the point, showing how tentative his proposals are, how carefully couched his prescriptions.
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How odd that in Moab one federal agency sought to preserve wild nature and another promoted the rapid exploitation of nature's rare-earth minerals to incinerate our enemies.
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Rocks, frogs, and humans find refuge in Zion National Park.
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The late Norris Hundley, Jr. warned that California's "Great Thirst" would be its undoing -- a warning we must heed.
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