Michelle Nijhuis

1 month ago | sltrib.com | Michelle Nijhuis

For more than 100 days, congressional Republicans tolerated many extreme actions by the Trump administration and its supporters. Last week, however, one member of the House decided to take a stand. The issue was a House amendment to the Republican budget package that would allow the sale or transfer of what conservation advocates say could be about 500,000 acres of public land in Nevada and Utah.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Michelle Nijhuis

For more than 100 days, congressional Republicans tolerated many extreme actions by the Trump administration and its supporters. Last week, however, one member of the House decided to take a stand. The issue was a House amendment to the Republican budget package that would allow the sale or transfer of what conservation advocates say could be about 500,000 acres of public land in Nevada and Utah.

Mar 19, 2025 | jhnewsandguide.com | Michelle Nijhuis |Callie Hanson

If you’re like many Americans these days, you don’t simply disagree with your political opponents. You distrust, dislike or even fear them. This “affective polarization,” as social scientists call it, has been on the rise in the United States since the 1980s, and it’s notoriously difficult to reverse. It can be treated, though. We’ve seen it done. In the rural West, few issues are more polarizing than the recovery of wolves.

Nov 25, 2024 | conservationworks.substack.com | Michelle Nijhuis

One thing I’ve learned from years of writing about conservation is that the English language doesn’t have enough words for it, and those that we do have can be counterproductive. “Words We Need” suggests some ways to fill the gap. Ideas welcome. Last week, the members of Washington State’s Wolf Advisory Group held a public meeting in the small town of Colville, just a mile or so south of the Canadian border.

Oct 31, 2024 | nybooks.com | Michelle Nijhuis

According to the historian Sunil Amrith, who grew up in Singapore in the 1980s, his home country is “as committed as anywhere on the planet to remaking nature for human ends.” In The Burning Earth, his insightful survey of the long human struggle to escape environmental limitations, Singapore serves as a microcosm.