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."
His impact on the natural world was made from the city of Angels.
Here is why, perversely, I would almost welcome a federal government shutdown, should Congress not resolve the looming budget impasse. Perhaps then we will discover how essential its functions are in our daily life.
A historic approach to water-resource management represents the road L.A. once refused to take. It's clear the path to which we must return.
Wash your hands, irrigate crops, or cool an industrial process: if you do this anywhere in the American southwest, chances are that water comes from…
The radiation that blew out from Japan barely left a trace on sensitive monitoring equipment in California. Yet its minute presence also registered loud and clear.
There can be no more dramatic rebuke of the ambition to dominate Mother Earth than the ruined lives, crumpled infrastructure, and flattened communities along Japan's northeastern coast.
Before clean air regulations, we couldn't see the mountains. Now we can, but some in Congress want to stop the regulations that brought us the view.
There is, apparently, no end to our appetite for the Mojave's resources; they are ensnared in the web of our all-consuming desires.
Southern California benefitted from The Weeks Act, which will celebrate its centennial on March 1st.
Come winter, the steelhead should be running up Southern California's many flat-bottomed rivers and creeks. They once took their cues from the powerful…
Here's a problem with wilderness. We tend to think of it as unmanaged and, by definition, unmanageable--a place apart. There is the built environment, where we live; and the natural landscape, where we do not. A look into this via a park in Claremont.