While I started pulling some spatial data off the internet some weeks ago, this week I managed to do some initial spatial analysis with the data! It’s exciting to brush off my old ArcGIS skills and gain new ones as I move forward with step one of my methodology. While in no way complete and […]
Easy Access Academia
Good scholarship not only maintains a high rigor of academic expertise but also a relate-ability to lay audiences, and in this spirit, I have created a simple method to understand the broad situation of the Elliott State Forest controversy. While not a perfect representation of the many subtleties of this situation, this diagram will allow […]
The Elliott Forest’s Uncertain Future
Framing Question How can different actors work cohesively to manage a natural resource? Focus/Research Question What options does the state have to maintain the Elliott State Forest’s economic obligations to the Common School Fund and nearby communities while achieving conservation goals if the forest is to remain as publicly-owned land? Background Logging, mining, and other […]
Takeaway’s from the film A River’s Last Chance
Last weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the sold-out premiere of A River’s Last Chance, a film by Olympia-based film-maker Shane Anderson, at the 2017 Portland Eco-Film Festival. Watching a documentary was by far the tamest Saturday night I’ve had in a LONG time, but the arguments made and solutions proposed in this film have […]
The Journey Continues…
It’s a bit daunting to think of the enormous amount of knowledge I’ve amassed on the topic of salmon conservation in the past three years as a student at Lewis & Clark. I could tell you about every species of salmon that exists, even the ones that don’t exist anymore! I can tell you […]