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Earth Matters: When is a trout a salmon and what difference does it make? — Published: 1/2/2021 1:41:10 PM When I was fly fishing for pink salmon some years ago in the Pacific Northwest, I hooked an enormous steelhead, which is a sea-run rainbow trout. That steelhead was twice the size of the five-pound salmon I’d caught, but I wondered why one was called salmon and the other, trout. How do fish get named? For that matter, what about other animals and plants? The biological sciences employ a worldwide army of namers, called taxonomists, who spend their lives categorizing plants and anim...

Circling Eloh: A Meditation First the war, thousands of miles to the east. No. First other, older wars with forgotten names, unhousing and unhoming the Apache Nation. The Arapaho Nation. The Cheyenne Nation. The Pueblo. The Shoshone. The Comanche. The Kiowa. The Navajo. There is a river run red, there is a lake, there is a world on fire who can never be regained. How can we reclaim when name and place are lost? When even ponderosa and lodgepole are uprooted for maple and elm? There is water. There are a hundred years. There is not enough water. There are fifty years. There is the town of Stou...