Articles by Grist staff

David B. Williams sends dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

David B. Williams is a freelance natural-history writer based in Seattle. He is the author of The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle and has written for Smithsonian, Popular Mechanics, National Parks, and The Seattle Times. Friday, 29 Jul 2005 SEATTLE, Wash. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is at the center of one of the […]

Smokey and Mirrors

Feds cut estimated economic worth of recreation in national forests During the Clinton administration, the U.S. Forest Service estimated that by the year 2000, recreation in national forests would contribute about $111 billion a year to the American economy. Now the Bush administration has slashed that estimate by a whopping $100 billion for 2002, down […]

Consider This a Bear Hug

Fervent support from Grist readers brings a tear to our eye Really, you’re too much. Our two-week fundraiser is over, and more than 1,000 of you responded to our desperate, naked pleas for support, sending a remarkable $54,478.74 our way. You shot the mercury right out of our hackneyed fundraising thermometer, forcing us to stare […]

Diary of a Mad Black River

Millions of gallons of liquid cow manure flow into N.Y. river At some point last week — nobody’s quite sure when — one wall of an earthen reservoir on one of New York state’s biggest dairy farms collapsed, releasing some 3 million gallons of liquid cow manure into the Black River. “That stinks,” noted observant […]