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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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Solar panels installed by REC Solar at a U.S. Forest Service building in San Dimas, CA | Photo: Courtesy REC Solar
Why has SoCal Edison been dead-set against other organizations generating solar power?
Inside a fracking operation. Seen here are engineers on the drilling platform of the Cuadrilla shale fracking facility on October 7, 2012 in Preston, Lancashire | Photo: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
Fracking is producing an economic boom and environmental disaster in South Texas.
A gray whale off the coast of Southern California on January 19th | Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Wherein the author goes looking for gray whales and gets hooked by 19th-c. sailor-writer Richard Henry Dana.
The Station Fire rages in Acton | Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Blaming the Forest Service for the Station Fire is easy. It's a lot harder for Angelenos to accept that they are complicit in the monster fire's destruction.
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Americans have a conflicted relationship with weeds.
The Imperial Beach border fence in 2006 | HECTOR MATA/AFP/Getty Images
How nuts is this? The U.S. is building a 300-foot-long fence into the Pacific to stop illegal migration.
Image via Claremonters Against Outrageous Water Rates on Facebook
Golden State Water Company wants to raise its rates; citizens are fighting back. Are they asking the right questions?
The debut poster for Smokey the Bear | Image via USFS
Republicans want to torch Smokey Bear to save a couple of bucks. But that's not what they are really up to.
The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, Jennie A. Brownscombe
To put that bird on your table on Thursday (or any other day of the year), a complex, highly specialized, and brutally efficient industry has emerged since World War Two.
Beauty Mountain | Photo: BLM
After shutting down the Keystone XL Pipeline, is President Obama finally getting serious about protecting our public lands?
Downtown Los Angeles seen from the Angeles National Forest
Our best bet for how to adapt to climate change may be large and vibrant cities.
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To survive on a climate-disrupted Earth we'd better starting thinking about our watersheds--our home ground.
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