Hilary Faxon, second place winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, profiles the life and activism of a Bhutanese conservationist.
Month: September 2014
Reconnecting Rivers in the Tualatin
Two F&ES students search for signs of recovery in an Oregon watershed.
Beyond the North Slope: Oil drills and discord off Alaska’s Arctic coast
Amy Mount, winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, journeys to Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to investigate the debate over offshore drilling and the stakes for subsistence whalers.
The Windham Campbell Literature Prize winners: John Vaillant
ohn Vaillant’s writing is equal parts adventure story, history lesson, investigative journalism, and eco-philosophy. Best known for his two nonfiction works, The Golden Spruce and The Tiger: A true story of vengeance and survival, Vaillant uses ecology, historiography, cultural anthropology, and geography to explore the tensions between economic necessity and natural resource sustainability in temperate rainforests of British Columbia and […]
The Windham Campbell Literature Prizes
SAGE Magazine speaks with 2014 Prize winners Jim Crace, Noëlle Janaczewska, and John Vaillant about environmental and natural history writing.