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Posts published by “Will Parrish”

The Struggles Of Local Sacred Sites

It was 520 years ago this week that a lost Italian seaman flying the Spanish flag washed ashore on the Bahama Islands, three-quarters of a…

Greenwashing Forest Destruction

The forests of the world are in deep trouble. One especially sobering illustration is as follows. 1970 is commonly cited (erroneously) as the year environmental…

Coastal Trail Or Trail Of Tears?

The physical geography that First Nations people have historically inhabited conveniently remains a mystery to most people in the dominant society. Seemingly, those willfully ignorant…

The Disenrollment Of Clayton Duncan

For as far back as Clayton Duncan can trace, the maternal side of his family has belonged to the land in and around Robinson Rancheria:…

21st Century Timber Wars

At Sierra Pacific Industries' sawmill on the Samoa Peninsula, where the Mad River Slough meets Humboldt Bay, eight miles southwest of Arcata, logging trucks carrying…

Not So Simple Living

For most of its history, Mendocino County has functioned both economically and culturally as a kind of colony, subordinate to centers of industrial capitalism like…

Hack & Squirt, Part 2

From a ridgetop knoll on Bald Hill, in Anderson Valley's “Deep End,” the Rancho Navarro home of Elaine and Mike Kalantarian affords a generous view…

Hack & Squirt, Part 1

Throughout history, obscenely wealthy people have amassed huge concentrations of land. Mendocino County, in the year 2012, is no exception.

Wine Country’s Dr. Sociopath

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair's 1923 book The Goose Step: A Study of American Education, some of the greatest sociopaths in this country’s history have affixed…

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