In our AMS/ENVS/HUM 159 Nature & World Cultures class, students complete a group project together with a Native Californian tribe, resulting in a micro-documentary, a published article, or a Wikipedia entry. You can view some of the micro-docs on my DrPfeiffer YouTube channel. We also just co-authored an article about this in the international journal […]

On August 6th, 2014 the California Fish & Game Commission vote unanimously to designate the Clear Lake Hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi), an endemic minnow of cultural and ecological significance, as a threatened species in California. Conservationists from the Center for Biological Diversity filed the initial petition. Volunteers with the Chi Council for the Clear Lake […]

After attending the Bread Loaf -Orion Environmental Writer’s Conference (Middlebury, VT), and then a “flipped classroom” workshop at the National Center for Case Study Teaching in the Sciences (SUNY-Buffalo), I ended up at the Fishtrap Writer’s Conference at Wallowa Lake, Oregon. Where I finished this three-minute poem-film.

Before last week, the Klamath and Trinity Rivers, and the hydroelectric dams that divert water, decimate native salmon populations, and threaten tribal culture, were blue lines on a map. Now, thanks to Dania Rose Colegrove, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, and Klamath Riverkeepers, I’m joining the effort to bring the dams down. Stand with us. (And […]