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Do Hunters and Anglers Still Matter?

“If we’re going to maintain the system, we have to have robust participation beyond 55-year-old white guys.” Hunters and anglers reversed the march of extinction at the turn of the last century. Species and wild places now face a similar menu of threats, from hors d’oeuvres of minor calamities to…

Hunting

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Do Hunters and Anglers Still Matter?
Do Hunters and Anglers Still Matter?
Hunting

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Climate Conscious

·Jan 20, 2021

To Fight Climate Change, Science and Story Must Kiss

I believe in stories. They enrapture the mind and shorten chasms of otherness. They offer vulnerable insight into the teller’s humanity and remind the listener that they share the same human family. Humans have long engaged challenging issues with story. Storytelling is the process of coming to terms with life…

Climate Change

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To Fight Climate Change, Science and Story Must Kiss
To Fight Climate Change, Science and Story Must Kiss
Climate Change

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Jan 13, 2021

Incited Trump supporters, you are destroying the liberties you seek to protect

A way of life will only stand if defensible to the public. Since our nation’s inception, the right to bear arms has been generally accepted and defended by the populace-at-large: Self-defense, speaking truth to power, sustenance. …

Politics And Protest

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Incited Trump supporters, you are destroying the liberties you seek to protect
Incited Trump supporters, you are destroying the liberties you seek to protect
Politics And Protest

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Climate Conscious

·Oct 25, 2020

I’m Pro-life and Pro-Gun, Yet Voting Biden

I love my guns, and I’m pro-life. But a second Trump term is untenable. Here are my reasons why … — “You have to be willing to risk mistakes, delays, and disappointments, or you will be at the mercy of only the tried and true, to your ultimate peril.” — Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac in The Future We Choose For the first time ever, I (almost) voted straight-ticket Democrat. That…

Trump

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I’m Pro-life and Pro-Gun, Yet Voting Biden
I’m Pro-life and Pro-Gun, Yet Voting Biden
Trump

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Climate Conscious

·Sep 11, 2020

Is Trump Really an Environmentalist?

Fact check: Trump is no environmentalist Full disclosure: This fact check against Trump’s recent environmental boasting isn’t objective journalism. And I don’t think it has to be: The press and free-thinking people everywhere have thoroughly scrutinized the transgressions I’m about to spew about our 45th President. So I feel OK providing my opinion on his latest…

Trump

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Is Trump Really an Environmentalist?
Is Trump Really an Environmentalist?
Trump

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Climate Conscious

·Jul 26, 2020

The Problems With Conservation: Scenic Clickbait, External Costs, and Community

Most of us have the best of intentions to remediate the ecological trifecta of climate change, deforestation, and the general malaise of ecological degradation. But our conceptions of conservation and its marketed solutions are largely and dangerously infatuated with the scenic and the sexy. Our settled urban and agricultural areas…

Conservation

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The Problems With Conservation: Scenic Clickbait, External Costs, and Community
The Problems With Conservation: Scenic Clickbait, External Costs, and Community
Conservation

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Climate Conscious

·May 22, 2020

Conservatives and Climate Change… Here’s How We’ll Do It.

To survive climate change, we must find commonality with its skeptics, specifically, conservatives. — The climate movement is a brand that tailors to a very particular demographic. It’s peddling consumer content targeted at liberal audiences, and in doing so, it has left out massive swaths of would-be supporters. The climate movement’s branding is shooting itself in the foot. Branding climate change accessorizes a global…

Climate Change

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Conservatives and Climate Change… Here’s How We’ll Do It.
Conservatives and Climate Change… Here’s How We’ll Do It.
Climate Change

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Climate Conscious

·May 9, 2020

Agriculture, Place, and Belonging

The coronavirus has really messed up my sense of place. Chiefly being, it’s shown me I have no sense of place at all. Not until last week. Doing my duty to flatten the curve has been tough. I’m a journalist, photographer, and adrenaline junkie. Naturally, anything that urges me to…

Environment

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Agriculture, Place, and Belonging
Agriculture, Place, and Belonging
Environment

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Apr 24, 2020

Confessions of an oblivious filmmaker

A mundane video edit just vomited a profound revelation. I was recently hired to film educational videos. I made two sub-rookie mistakes: One, I let the *&$@ing camera run for 15 minutes. Fif. Teen. Minutes. And two; I failed to afford the client I interviewed the magnanimous blessing of —…

Film

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Confessions of an oblivious filmmaker
Confessions of an oblivious filmmaker
Film

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Apr 16, 2020

Captain, My Captain

I attempt to stay apolitical with my meanderings. I try (and often fail) to maintain a semblance of coolness and objectivity. But I must deviate from that path today because our president has taken his megalomania to a whole new level. With the absence of strong federal leadership, governors of…

Covid-19

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Captain, my captain …
Captain, my captain …
Covid-19

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Christian Wayne Yonkers

Christian Wayne Yonkers

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A Michigan-based journalist and photographer creating content for environmental and social change.

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