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Anthropocene Diaries: Searsville Dam
Keith Kloor had a nice riff the other day on the question of how we should decide what “nature” is supposed to look like, now that we’re kinda in charge: It’s not my job to say what nature should mean...
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Anthropocene diaries: fight the man
girdled tree, Albuquerque bosque, February 2013 I’m going to make up a story. I’d like to think it might be true. There’s an impromptu path I like to walk along the Rio Grande in Albuquerque that...
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Anthropocene diaries: a fish story I wrote elsewhere
A forest burns down. Humans rescue fish, keep ‘em alive in an Albuquerque warehouse. Maybe 80 years before the drainage that feeds their forest creek recovers. Maybe 200. This is life in the...
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Stuff I wrote elsewhere – Anthropocene diaries: how much water for the minnow?
From the morning paper, the latest in the struggle to figure out how much water the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow needs: According to an analysis by the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission,...
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Getting nature right is hard, Episode XVII: restoring the Elwha
PORT ANGELES – The Elwha River is, as U.S. rivers go, a dinky thing. It rises in the Olympic Mountains, draining a basin of a bit more than 300 square miles and flowing north some 45 miles before...
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“City Water, City Life”
a pond and a dog I live in a suburban neighborhood that dates to the early 1950s, when this swath of mesa east of the Rio Grande was cleared for homes. It’s almost certainly at that point that the city...
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Nature or not?
Mule deer, Far View cafeteria, Mesa Verde, May 2014 Mule deer, in the grass outside the Far View cafeteria at Mesa Verde National Park. Is this nature? Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey...
View ArticleWhy water markets are hard – what economists call “transaction costs”
Nathanael Johnson at Grist continues his excellent work digging past the noise to try to help us understand what’s really going on with California’s drought. Today it’s a deep dive into water markets,...
View ArticleGreen versus green: removing Snake River dams
One of my University of New Mexico Water Resources Program colleagues frequently points out what they call “green versus green issues” – environmental tradeoffs that are often under-examined because...
View Articleon apocalyptic environmental discourse
Clearly, the apocalyptic imaginary is unlikely to disappear from the popular global psyche any time soon. Despite this, we must resist catastrophic hyperbole, including the increasingly alarmist...
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On the importance of getting the boundaries right in water management and...
I’m working this weekend on two talks, one a webinar Wednesday with Audubon and the other a lecture for UNM Water Resources grad students Thursday, that both touch on one of the fundamental challenges...
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“reconciliation ecology” in the rice fields of California
Reconciliation ecology, the field’s founders say, “says we still have time to save most of the world’s species. But to do it, we must stop trying to put an end to civilization and human enterprise....
View ArticleBrad Udall’s western water climate change bibliography
Speaking earlier this month at the University of Colorado’s Martz Conference, Brad Udall offered what amounted to a bibliography, both helpful and deeply unnerving, of recent scientific literature...
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Albuquerque’s Rio Grande Oxbow
Rio Grande Oxbow, 2020-04-09, by John Fleck I was talking last week with one of my collaborators about the challenge of working. All the things that so fully occupied my time and brain seem so...
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Beavers and Bikes: a Coupled Human and Natural System
Rio Grande Beavers Build New Bike Rack Near Downtown Albuquerque
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The Distribution of Green
Rio Grande, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 1,430 cubic feet per second, May 6, 2021 Ima give this a fancy sciency-sounding patina: I walked a transect today across the ribbon of green the Rio Grande provides...
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Nature or not?
Mule deer, Far View cafeteria, Mesa Verde, May 2014 Mule deer, in the grass outside the Far View cafeteria at Mesa Verde National Park. Is this nature? Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey...
View ArticleWhy water markets are hard – what economists call “transaction costs”
Nathanael Johnson at Grist continues his excellent work digging past the noise to try to help us understand what’s really going on with California’s drought. Today it’s a deep dive into water markets,...
View ArticleGreen versus green: removing Snake River dams
One of my University of New Mexico Water Resources Program colleagues frequently points out what they call “green versus green issues” – environmental tradeoffs that are often under-examined because...
View Articleon apocalyptic environmental discourse
Clearly, the apocalyptic imaginary is unlikely to disappear from the popular global psyche any time soon. Despite this, we must resist catastrophic hyperbole, including the increasingly alarmist...
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