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The latest original material from Tommy and related authors on current issues and the environment, including cited news content.

The Death Knell of America’s Greatest Conservation Legacy

November 11, 2025

In October, anti-public lands and anti-Wilderness Senator Mike Lee of Utah — the same GOP senator whose recent scheme to enact a massive sell-off of federal public lands was pushed […]

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The Wisdom of the Landmark U.S. Forest Service Roadless Rule

June 15, 2025

Submit your comments by 9 p.m. Pacific time, i.e. 12 midnight Eastern time. Here are the remarks I submitted today. Feel free to copy and paste these for your own. […]

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No Better Tool to Combat Climate Change Than Old-Growth Forests

June 14, 2023

This piece by Alex Craven originally appeared in the Northwest Passages community forum series in the June 10, 2023, edition of the Spokane Spokesman-Review. By Alex Craven When envisioning Washington’s […]

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