Josephine Marcotty
Environmental Writer at Freelance
Independent environmental writer and former environmental reporter at the Minneapolis Star Tribune
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3 weeks ago |
nautil.us | Josephine Marcotty
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In 1987, the geographers Deborah and Frank Popper published “The Buffalo Commons,” a now-famous essay that painted a bleak picture of the American West: a bitter climate, a vanishing population, and a tragic, stubborn loyalty to cattle ranching.
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1 month ago |
wglt.org | Dave Hage |Josephine Marcotty
The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it's disappearing even faster. A new book documents the destruction of this natural wonder and introduces some of the people trying to save it. " Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie " is out on Tuesday. Authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty met up with Here & Now 's Chris Bentley in Illinois' Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie to talk about it.
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1 month ago |
lithub.com | Dave Hage |Josephine Marcotty
The Raccoon River makes a lazy entrance into Des Moines, completing its journey from northwest Iowa in a series of graceful switchbacks through an urban park, its olive surface shaded by locust trees and towering cottonwoods. At the edge of downtown it turns north and, on the southern bank, passes a squat concrete culvert: the main intake for the Des Moines Water Works, which supplies drinking water to the city.
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