Benjamin Alva Polley

I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.

Here’s my first column on lake ice.

I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.

Here’s my first column on lake ice.

@kinfolk magazine

@kinfolk magazine

About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.

Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.

Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.

Dispatches from the Wild: Montana’s record high wolf quota | Explore Big Sky By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Years ago, I hiked with two friends in a remote area of Glacier National Park during early November. Western larch trees blazed with the color of butterscotch, th...

As Henry Beston observed in “The Outermost House” in 1928, “Wildlife are beings that live in a world far older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses…

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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Dispatches from the Wild: Mike Lee attacks Wilderness Act under guise of national security | Explore Big Sky By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST This past June, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) attempted—and failed—to privatize 3.5 million acres of federally managed and protected public lands. This deeply unpopular ...

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Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.

Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!

Share this with the person standing next to you in line at the food pantry.

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

Dispatches from the Wild: Mike Lee attacks Wilderness Act under guise of national security | Explore Big Sky By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST This past June, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) attempted—and failed—to privatize 3.5 million acres of federally managed and protected public lands. This deeply unpopular ...

www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...

It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Managing North America’s largest Native-owned bison herd | Stories | WWF Chance “Bud” Colombe manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range, home to over 1,000 bison—the largest Native-owned bison herd in the world, operating under the belief that when the grasslands and bison thrive, so do the people.

This summer I was fortunate to go on assignment for the WWF to South Dakota to write about indigenous-led bison restoration projects.

This is the first of three stories.

www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...

Source: World Wildlife Fund

Wow! Amazing! Thanks for reading and commenting.

@cpjunion.bsky.social

Thanks so much, Paul. Safe travels!

They were lost in the wild and on the verge of death. This is how they survived Thousands of search and rescue missions are conducted in the US each year. Who perishes, who gets found, and why?

One of my favorite pieces I wrote this year.

www.theguardian.com/travel/ng-in...

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.

Let that sink in

They were lost in the wild and on the verge of death. This is how they survived Thousands of search and rescue missions are conducted in the US each year. Who perishes, who gets found, and why?

One of my favorite pieces I wrote this year.

www.theguardian.com/travel/ng-in...

Our Wilderness Honeymoon Almost Killed Us. Literally. Why it's a good thing to face mortality with your significant other.

When @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social and I, two adventurers, were planning our honeymoon, it made sense that it should be the most epic adventure we’d undertaken to date. No feather beds and cocktails on beaches for us, we thought.

And then we almost died.

cassidyr.substack.com/p/our-wilder...

In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods? The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.

A recent national study concluded that floods previously considered to be hundred-year events have become, on average, 62-year events, as a result of human-caused climate change.

The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Not sure who is behind this video (could just be dude on camera) but it is extremely effective and this kind of thing will first make the rounds on social but then show up, or be imitated in, election-season ads.

This is a pretty important point!

Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post? The Amazon founder was once thought to be the newspaper’s savior—now its journalists are fleeing for the exits. Clare Malone reports on how the paper that brought down Nixon is struggling to survive t...

In the days of Woodward and Bernstein, the Washington Post held the nation’s most powerful officials to account. Now it's facing an identity crisis.

Lawrence O’Donnell: one of the last honest voices in journalism—smart, sharp, and always right about the law. While others were busy sane-washing Trump, Lawrence said it for ages: those tariffs were illegal. The U.S. Court of International Trade proved him right. Again. Truth matters.

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.