Jennifer Sahn

Carpinteria

Editor-in-Chief at High Country News

EIC of @highcountrynews, previously stoking/putting out fires @Patagonia, @PacificStand, @Orion_Magazine. Wife, mother, eco-defender, relapsed Californian.

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Protest Is another form of love

3 weeks ago | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

On a recent trip to Joshua Tree,I had the opportunity to attend a protest of the Trump administration’s depraved cuts to public-lands managers and park employees.
Love fiercely despite the tidal wave of injustice

1 month ago | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

Lately, it feels as if it’s getting harder to find joy. We wake each day to the news of sweeping cuts to government programs that serve anyone other than the rich and powerful while our communities are torn apart by disdain, hate and the threat of harassment and deportation and our environment suffers as already insufficient laws and programs are thrown wholesale on the bonfire of the vanities. Yet finding joy is still possible and, I would argue, essential.
There’s more than one kind of migrant

2 months ago | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I cannot stop thinking about the people who lost everything in the LA fires.
Leave it better than you found it

Dec 31, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I was raised to believe that you should leave places better than you found them. Pick up trash, plant flowers, repair something broken, leave a few pieces of firewood at a campsite for the next folks. Practice “leave no trace” in the backcountry, so that others can have the same exhilarating experience you did without having to stumble on a disconcerting wad of toilet paper at the base of an unsuspecting shrub. Some hikers will even turn a Ziploc bag inside out and retrieve those repulsive wads.
We will not be intimidated

Nov 27, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I’m looking at a photo of someone’s house going up in flames. It’s one of a number of iconic images taken during the Mountain Fire, which broke out in early November and swept through suburban neighborhoods in Ventura County, California. The image is horrific. And it is also metaphorical: As Greta Thunberg says about planet Earth, “Our house is on fire.” This really should concern more people. Statistically speaking, we are all at risk.
There’s a long journey ahead, no matter who wins

Oct 31, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

A few weeks ago,I followed a hawk that was following the cliff edge above the beach, flying into the wind. It rarely flapped its wings, except when the wind gusted; then it flapped them slowly, just enough to not lose ground — or air, I should say. It reminded me of taking my chocolate Lab tubing on the rivers of western Massachusetts. She’d float alongside us, dog-paddling only when necessary to sustain her momentum or skirt an obstacle, working with, rather than against, the forces of nature.
Election blues and reds and greens

Sep 30, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I’m in the high country, above treeline, walking through a rock garden. Undulating slabs smoothed by glaciers are dotted with smaller boulders, stones and pebbles that broke off from bigger formations. It is a riot of color: Deep reds fading to red-orange, crystalline white cutting through a light gray substrate, bluish-green facets so polished they resemble jade. I’ve spent the week exploring a “research natural area” where no overnight camping is allowed.
Can we rely on public officials to keep us safe?

Aug 31, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I once worked in a building that was located next to a former fuel storage site — a boarded-up property encircled by a chain-link fence. My office was on the first floor, and there was underground parking, where walls of poured concrete had wide pipes running along them. In time, I learned that those pipes were part of a ventilation system designed to remove pollutants seeping upward from a plume of toxic material that had traveled underground from the neighboring site.
Tear it down - High Country News

Jul 31, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

I recently toureda site containing aging oil infrastructure. Atop a peaceful coastal California bluff draped in late-day golden sun stood two oil-storage tanks and one smaller emergency water tank, plus a network of pipes. This is the Ellwood Marine Terminal. For decades, oil drilled from an offshore platform was piped to an onshore facility a couple of miles away, cleaned and processed, then piped to one of these tanks.
One for the birds

Jun 30, 2024 | hcn.org | Jennifer Sahn

Wherever you live, you have birds. You may even, like me, have a favorite bird. It might be a rarely sighted one that, whenever you see it, makes your heart sing. Or it might be a relatively abundant species whose company you appreciate on the daily. They are our feathered fellow travelers on this planet, wherever we go. Too often, though, they’re overlooked. Not underappreciated; bird lovers and bird-watchers are legion.

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9 Apr 25

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"The stock handlers represent the ancient tradition of animal and human working together to move what feels like literal heaven and earth across harsh terrain, forging lifelong bonds in the process." #longreads @goes_by_kim for @highcountrynews https://t.co/Kk5XYATvaJ https://t.co/fNwOzgALHL

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6 Apr 25

RT @highcountrynews: We need an army of Raúl Grijalvas to stem the flood of ‘bullshit’ emanating out of the White House. https://t.co/cGr…

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27 Mar 25

RT @npbowlin: The Trump administration has cancelled a grant program that funds plugging of orphaned oil and gas wells. The initiative was…

Jennifer Sahn

Articles

Protest Is another form of love

Love fiercely despite the tidal wave of injustice

There’s more than one kind of migrant

Leave it better than you found it

We will not be intimidated

There’s a long journey ahead, no matter who wins

Election blues and reds and greens

Can we rely on public officials to keep us safe?

Tear it down - High Country News

One for the birds

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