Rocky Barker is an award-winning journalist and author based in Idaho. He has written extensively about environmental issues and the American West.
John Anderson, Bayfield County Judge, speaks at the dedication of a memorial overlooking Washburn, Wi harbor for the 29 men who lost their lives on the iron ore carrier the Edmund Fitzgerald Nov. 10, 1975.(Rocky Barker photo) I began my journalism career 50 years ago one block east of where I now live in Washburn, Wi on the shores of Lake Superior. I was a terrible writer and reporter as the gales…
Stanley is one of the towns that is locked in making worker housing difficult. But the new bill by Republicans to sell off public land...
Protecting biological diversity has never been a particularly controversial position until now. John Turner, the director of the U.S....
Chequmegon Bay as the sun sets on Northland College The last 55 years or so has been a time of change of a geologic scale. The debate...
Chequamegon Bay on Lake Superior, the home of the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute The day I arrived at Northland College, August 27,...
The announcement last week that Northland College of Ashland Wisconsin, my alma mater, would close at the end of this academic year ,...
Schafer Dam is on Lake Success near Porterville, Calif. and President Trump has drained water from the reservoir to aid the firefighting...
A vista in the backcountry of the Boise National Forest east of Boise. The Supreme Court refused to hear Utah’s lawsuit seeking to...
A wall of fire burns through California (Courtesy Tim Walton of Calfire) The one thing we know will happen in the wake of the giant fires...
Jimmy Carter and his family float down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho in 1978. By Rocky Barker The most significant land...
Grizzly Bear 399 in Grand Teton National Park with a cub by her side (National Park Service/ A.J. Adams) By Rocky Barker The life and...
Guide Mike Hicks looks at the hatchery steelhead caught by Brad Marczuk on the Salmon River 600 miles from the Pacific. Wild steelhead...
William Perry Pendley During the Vice-Presidential candidates debate last month Republican J.D. Vance raised the idea that we can solve...
The mouth of the Columbia River where it meets the Pacific Veteran Northwest Journalist Randy Stapilus is baffled that Idaho’s...
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm looks at fuel recycling facilities and liquid metal experiments at Oklo's lab at Argonne National...
Ice Harbor Dam dumps waters from the Snake into the Columbia Former President Donald Trump suggested there was a “large faucet” up North...
Jeff Wilson rarely missed a chance to make an encounter with an animal or a human a learning experience. The Iowa farm boy, who made a...
A falls in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness This week, 60 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act,...
We paddle the free-flowing Kennebec River a day after Edwards Dam came down (NRCM) Shrouded in the New England mist, Everett “Brownie”...
The Wapiti Fire near Stanley creates its own weather during the heat of the afternoon(U.S. Forest Service} The worst may be over for the...