John Miles

Correspondent at Sputnik Globe

Photographer and Filmmaker at Freelance

Articles

Lessons from the Glacier Peak Wilderness

2 weeks ago | adventuresnw.com | John Miles

One warm summer morning in early August of 2005, a small group of grad students from Western Washington University and I gazed across a small lake at one of America’s most spectacular mountain views. The lake was indeed small, really a small tarn, its glass-like surface reflected a perfectly clear upside-down image of Glacier Peak, a gleaming white volcano of powerful symmetry. The mountain was framed in the foreground by spires of subalpine fir.
Review | Mesa Verde’s Secret Garden: A History Of Managing The Backcountry And Wilderness Of A National Park

1 month ago | nationalparkstraveler.org | John Miles

Mesa Verde is unique in the National Park System, the only national park created specifically to preserve archaeological values.
The looming danger of privatizing our public lands

2 months ago | taosnews.com | John Miles

We who live in states with much public land should be thinking about what might happen should the Trump administration succeed in cutting land management agencies like the Forest Service, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management so much that they cannot manage the land in their care. Would they perhaps say the lands in the care of those agencies should be sold to the highest bidder or to their friends? Might they propose management and care of public lands be privatized?
In praise and support of public lands

Jan 16, 2025 | taosnews.com | John Miles

A recent issue of the Taos News featured a story titled “Dawson Elk Valley Ranch conserved under Native stewardship," which reported the Dawson Valley Ranch outside Cimarron was being purchased as part of the Vermejo River Watershed Conservation Project. The purchase, as reported, involved 50,000 acres and resulted from cooperation between federal and state government and The Nature Conservancy, a fine example of public-private cooperation and partnership.
Beware of Utah public lands grab

Jan 11, 2025 | santafenewmexican.com | John Miles

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Review | Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid The Arctic Climate Crisis

Dec 7, 2024 | nationalparkstraveler.org | John Miles

The climate crisis receives much coverage these days, mostly focused on extreme weather, sea level rise, and dislocation of people by climate-related stresses like drought and wildfire. Declining polar ice and its impact on polar bears gets some coverage, bringing the Arctic into the story, but few of us understand the scope of the impact climate change is having above the Arctic Circle or why we should be concerned about what is happening up there.
Lake Powell’s Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River

Nov 30, 2024 | nationalparkstraveler.org | John Miles

Dead pool on the Colorado River is defined as the level of Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam when the lowest tunnels on the dam allowing water to be released into the Grand Canyon would be above the reservoir level and part of the reservoir would remain, a stagnant pool.
Review | A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years Of Wolf Recovery

Nov 19, 2024 | nationalparkstraveler.org | John Miles

In the late 1970s, wolf biologist Diane K. Boyd tracked a lone female wolf named Kishinena in country around the North Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. As Doug Chadwick writes in his foreward to this book, most people think wolves were first brought back to Yellostone National Park in the mid-1990s, but by that time Diane and her colleagues had been studying them on the North Fork country, in Glacier National Park and surroundings, for well over a decade.
‘Right to Rape’: US Officials Meet Counterparts at Infamous Israeli Torture Camp

Nov 4, 2024 | defenddemocracy.press | John Miles

By John MilesOctober 15, 2024Sde Teiman has been the site of numerous alleged incidents of torture, including electrocution, burning, beatings, sexual humiliation and the denial of food, water, healthcare and sleep. One Israeli doctor claimed amputations of limbs take place “routinely” as prisoners remain handcuffed for extended periods of time.
Poems: Birds of a feather

Oct 22, 2024 | inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |John Miles |PHIL BROWN |Genevieve Meegan

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