Char Miller
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."
What's 100 years old on July 6th, and also 100,000 years old? Devils Postpile National Monument. In its two sets of ages, lies a fascinating story about the relationship between the landmark's geology and its human history.
Drug Cartels are turning our national forests into marijuana plantations, devastating these treasured wildlands
Can President Obama use the environment as a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign? Here's how he might.
Republicans once again are attacking America's sacred wildlands, using its anti-immigrant rhetoric as cover for its assault on critical federal environmental protections.
A program of the American Hiking Society, the day was established in 1993 to build public interest in and support for the more than 200,000 miles of trails that crisscross the United States.
They say that "fracking" will give us cheap, clean energy but its deleterious impact on public health and the environment makes it as dirty as coal, as messy as oil.
The Department of Public Works argues we must rush to haul out 1.5 million cubic yards of debris behind Devil's Gate Dam. Citizens want an environmental impact statement first. who's right?
The best that has come out of the drought are the water-conservation restrictions that should be kept in place, permanently.
The death of two LA County firefighters during the 2009 Station Fire testifies to the dangerous work this agency has undertaken during its first century of valiant service to the region
100 years ago, Pierre Grimaud ran his sheep illegally into the Sierra National Forest. He had no idea that he would end up embroiled in a landmark U. S. Supreme Court case that saved the national-forest system.
Update, May 4th: A second updating of the committee vote on SB 147: on Monday, May 2, the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic…
President Obama declared this week to be National Parks Week. Are these just empty words?