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The Pebble Mine: Will we choose the right path?

The Pebble Mine: Will we choose the right path?

In life there are many crossroads. Forks in the paths of time that leave us with a choice we must take to carry on. Left or right. North or south. Choose correctly and we find our way home. Choose wrong, we may become lost—perhaps even permanently. At this very moment, we are at one of

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Conservation: It’s not just for hippies

Conservation: It's not just for hippies

Conservation: There was a point in my life when just hearing the word caused me to think of granola-eating hippies chaining themselves to bulldozers by their dreadlocks to save a tree they named “Grandfather.” I used to think of it as an overly Bohemian, non-conformist, liberal practice that simply gave certain people the excuse to

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Environmental myopia: The Pebble Mine would be an irreversible mistake

Environmental myopia: The Pebble Mine would be an irreversible mistake

In an age where man’s desire to modernize and exploit the natural world has oozed its way across the planet in an unyielding tide of consumption, Alaska has so far remained mostly untouched. The state has somehow held its ground against the pounding waves of development, remaining a beacon of wilderness on the shores of

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