Eric Siegel

...Landscapes and their politics... • Journalist, lately for @highcountrynews • Poet, wandering storyteller •🏔🏳️‍🌈🌲

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

So excited to share this story, about a group of anti-fascist, gun-toting, transgender alpaca ranchers in a remote Colorado valley. Many thanks to @SteampunkPenny & @TenaciousRanch for speaking w/ me. “We belong here. Queers are reclaiming country spaces.”https://t.co/DuhsnES6PZ

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

welp, this is just gorgeous: https://t.co/EOfODvOwVb

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

We at Harper’s Magazine mourn the passing of Annie Dillard, who served as a contributing editor to the magazine from 1973 to 1985.

https://t.co/KraOW36JuQ

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

I post this haunting Naomi Shihab Nye poem every 4th of July:

[Isaac Chotiner @IChotiner]

New Interview: I talked to Tareq Baconi, an expert on Hamas, about what the group hoped to accomplish, why Israeli government policy toward Hamas has changed over the years, & how to understand the sheer scale of the violence & cruelty of recent days. https://t.co/07wptJ5pA6

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

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“The ruling has implications for public access to 8.3 million acres of “corner locked” public land in the U.S. The hunters argued that the federal Unlawful Inclosures Act of 1885 prevents Eshelman from obstructing access across the corner.”

https://t.co/r5ZCf5z76Z

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@flyingmulefarm Thank you so much for sharing this. It reminds me of Susan Sontag’s essays about this too, “Illness as Metaphor.” Here’s a link to the whole book: https://t.co/uBfd96SEIM

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

Such irresponsible writing here. Is this an OpEd piece masquerading as reporting? “Being listed as an endangered species doesn’t necessarily mean…[a species] is explicitly useful to humans.” Uh, yeh—that’s why the Endangered Species Act exists 😤😤 https://t.co/w7pepfaCEk

[Shad Murib @ShadMurib]

Most #copolitics eyes are on Denver, but y’all should take a look at some of the results in Grand Junction.

Folks, Western CO is changing and it’s not good news for Lauren Boebert. #copolitics

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@emilyraboteau “Whose Time Are We Speaking In?”—from Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi—gutted me just yesterday:

https://t.co/IimfcTIJ7C

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@gibbsne Thank you for sharing this here!—it’s powerful on many levels and propels my thinking. Had you not posted it here, I don’t know if I would have found it as easily. 🙌

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

Re: https://t.co/jd2TZQl5s9

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

I once had the great privilege of reporting on the amazing people behind @GreatBasinWater’s decades-long win against the Vegas pipeline—and this new film captures them and their landscape. If you’re in one of these cities, plz!, SEE THIS! More info here: https://t.co/4XFmCJei45

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@amyjccuddy Absolutely yes: The Solace of Open Spaces, by Gretel Ehrlich

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@elenasb_ “odd-bedfellows coalitions” 👈

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

@elenasb_ passersby :)

[Christopher Leonard @CLeonardNews]

Folks, please drop what you're doing and take time to read this absolutely incredible essay by the one and only @Sarah_Smarsh
This is one of most illuminating pieces about U.S. politics that you'll read in a long, long time.
https://t.co/tTrN8I3Ecn

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

I am absolutely digging this new book. In-depth narrative reporting about the ways people learn & discover who they are—in spite of the psychiatric diagnoses & labels that try to explain away their humanity.

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

Nothing like embedding with a USFS wildfire spotter in a fire tower. Pics from high above the Idaho-Montana borderlands/Bitterroot Mountains. To understand wildfire lookouts/“spotters,” is to understand a enduring trade of art & science passed down among generations of seers…

[Andrew Travers @andrewhtravers]

At the Aspen Times, I had a front row seat for corporate censors and thin-skinned billionaires stifling the free press. I wrote about it all for @TheAtlantic: https://t.co/7xdvDSEv8q

[Eric Siegel @eric_siegel1]

Jane Hirshfield @ Napa Valley Writers’ Confernece this week:“Poems begin in a murmur for me. I have a kinesthetic sense that something’s ‘about’. I begin writing because something in my life needs to speak.” 👌👌👌