by Rebecca Wildbear | May 16, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear Two Bureau of Land Management officers came to visit. It was snowing and the wind was blowing hard. “Are you guys having fun yet?” one asked. “The weather’s always like this when we come,” the other said. Two cops showed up a week later. It was...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 15, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear Red-tailed hawks nested in a nearby canyon. Every once in a while, one circled above. A middle-aged man and I sat in the sagebrush. We had both been at camp for more than a week. I looked toward the snow-capped peaks that surrounded us, as he...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 14, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear The citizens of Orovada meet each week to discuss the mine. Lithium Nevada representatives were there last time. They came to put the minds of local citizens at ease. They were going to construct and operate this mine safely. “Sulphur is natural,”...
by Rebecca Wildbear | May 12, 2021 | Reflection
By Rebecca Wildbear My tent was ripped to shreds by the wind on the first night. I slept in my car, but the wind pried unabashedly at my heart for days. It grew colder. One morning I awoke to a white landscape, later melted by the midday sun. The sagebrush pulled me...
by Rebecca Wildbear | Apr 8, 2021 | Reflection
Photograph of Thacker Pond by Max Wilbert Lithium: Mining Mountains of Water by Rebecca Wildbear Nearly a third of the world lacks safe drinking water, though I have rarely been without. In a red rock canyon in Utah, backpacking on a week-long wilderness training in...
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