Great Basin Wildfire Forum
The Search For Solutions A science-based policy publication aimed at enhancing the Great Basin’s environment. From the preface… The primary impetus for this Wildfire Forum is a document authored by John McLain and Sheila Anderson of Resource Concepts, Inc. entitled “Urgent Need for a Scientific Review of the Ecological and Management History of the Great Basin Natural Resources and Recommendations to Achieve Ecosystem Restoration.” This document urged prominent scientists who have spent their careers studying, observing and...
read moreWatching the Sixties Go By publicity
Sam Edwards stood as a witness of the sixties from a vantage point documented by few Americans. He was a bartender. In New York City, the sixties presented tales beyond what most can comprehend as Sam quietly kept notes of his experiences only to later relive them in book and audio form as stream of consciousness poetry much like that of Jack Kerouac. (Modern poet Tom McKeown says Sam’s book “… is a bit like Kerouac but really it’s more like Whitman and distantly like Pablo Neruda.”) We helped Sam from the...
read moreCommentary: What is an expert?
A manifesto for credibility The emergence of the Information Age has given most everyone access to an unlimited wealth of knowledge. More recently, as social online media have flourished, there is an even greater rate of participation. With that, curiously, has been a trend to claim expertise. Tim Ferriss’ book, The Four Hour Work Week (which I recommend with some reservations) has a section on how to transform yourself into an expert at something. Among the suggestions: get yourself published, get interviewed by the news media, add your...
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