First, last night I was lucky enough to attend an artist's talk/book launch party hosted at the Aperture gallery and celebrating the release of Eirik Johnson's second monograph, Sawdust Mountain. For four years, Eirik photographed in Washington, Oregon, and northern California, working to elucidate the complicated and fragile relationships between the region's ecology, industry, and individuals that harvest and/or preserve natural resources. The images paint beautiful, desperate portraits of a region in transition and inherently reference water (whether they depict a fisherman cleaning a slamon along the Sol Duc River or a fresh clearcut in Nemah, Washington). Take some time and check them out here.
Second, I haven't been following the moves of the Clean Water Restoration Act particularly closely, but I did notice today that, late last week, Ducks Unlimited came out with a statement of support for the Act. In addition, the Grand Junction Sentinel reported Monday that other groups, including Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership have expressed similar support. Dissent remains among the sportsman community (here, for example), but the support of organizations like DU, TU, and TRCP is crucial, especially since many farmers' organizations that have expressed concern with the bill (here, here, and here, for example) are located in regions where organizations like DU and TU are most active (check out DU priority regions here, and TU's conservation projects here, for example). For the latest on the CWRA, go here.
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