Rants from the Hill: After many years of essay writing, a wave goodbye

By Michael Branch / On April 19th, 2016
The Rants from the Hill essay series has appeared in High Country News online every month, without fail, since July 2010. A lot has happened in those (almost) six years as we—my wife, Eryn, and our daughters, Hannah and Caroline—have lived as fully as possible our shared life here on a remote hill in western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. And now, with this farewell Rant, I draw the essay series to a close.
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Hello from NACCB 2014!

By Erin Johnson / On July 16th, 2014
The view of the University of Montana campus from the nearby Mt. Sentinel.
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Island Press Staff Picks

By Admin, Jason Leppig / On September 6th, 2012
This week's pick, Saving a Million Species, is from our Marketing Assistant, Meghan Bartels: When it comes to the effects of climate change, biodiversity is difficult to model because we don’t have a firm head count of how many species we started with and the breadth of effects is difficult to encompass, even with computer programs.