Category: Social Justice Work
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Moving on
Today will be my last day, for quite a while or perhaps ever, as a professional social worker. I’ll go in to the office to tie up a shockingly small number of loose ends, make one final home visit to hand off one last case, and be back home this evening unemployed for the two […]
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Next
It’s 930 miles from Whitefish, Montana to Fruita, Colorado. We left, as has become habit, around 800pm. 730 is close enough to Little Bear’s bedtime to ensure a tranquil transition to sleep, but M forgot her snowboots and he had to go back. All night drives south may be a habit, but even with this […]
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Don’t lie for happiness
Adventure Journal is a website that on most days I love to hate, for its click baitness and lifestyleish vacuity, but fairly often it publishes an essay of real profundity, which most of you simply must read. This is one of those. Social media is dangerous. Not so much because on the internet money and […]
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The next empire of grandeur
When it comes to National Parks my enthusiasm and sentimentality knows few bounds, and thus it made for a delightful day last weekend when I both woke up with a stomachache and found that PBS had put Burns’ “National Parks” up for free viewing, in their entirety. My curiosity over the years has been such […]
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Hayduke, the movie
State land, Montana. On his most recent episode of Hunt Talk Radio Randy Newberg got into an interesting local controversy, which as they discuss is just the latest iteration of an issue which has in Montana persisted and grown worse in recent decades. Public land in the western US has been under assault since the […]
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Senate Amendment 838
Amendment No. 838 (Purpose: To establish a spending-neutral reserve fund relating to the disposal of certain Federal land) At the appropriate place, insert the following: SEC. ___. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO THE DISPOSAL OF CERTAIN FEDERAL LAND. The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate may revise the allocations of a […]
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Keep it public
I’ve been putting this writing off for months, because putting fingers to keys and pixels to ‘net admits that there are things which need to be said about keeping public lands public. Today, there absolutely are, and that admission is in itself a sad statement. I remain acutely skeptical that the current movement to transfer […]
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Fourth of July Creek
[Warning: The following contains spoilers.] Smith Henderson gets it. There are a number of very good things about Henderson’s novel Fourth of July Creek, but by far the most significant is that his portrayal of northwestern Montana, and the dark insular social landscape which to this day lurks close to the surface, is absolutely dead-on. […]
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nine/50
“We know that America cannot be made strong by leadership which reacts only to the needs or the irritations or the frustrations of the moment. True leadership must provide for the next decade and not merely the next day.” -President Lyndon Johnson, upon signing the Wilderness Act Somehow it felt appropriate to contemplate the Wilderness […]
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The Front, for the future
Last year I wrote about the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act, a piece of legislation still stuck in the middle of the legislative process. I still think the bill is a great example of what I wrote about yesterday, a compromise which doesn’t sacrifice the future for the present, or vice versa. There’s a great […]
Bedrock & Paradox 
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