After 41 years attempting to protect the state’s wildlife from disease, degradation and the toxic incursions of his fellow humans, Dr. Ward Stone of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the former folksy voice of the environment on WAMC’s “In Our Backyard,” is a man dispossessed. In June of this year Stone’s [...]
Volume III No. 3
Ward Stoned
Crusading DEC wildlife pathologist the victim of character assassination
Steve Hopkins • September 23rd, 2010
The proof is in the polychlorinated biphenyls
Scott Patrick Humphrey • September 23rd, 2010
There I was, a newly minted reporter on the move, with the wide expanse of the Valley open for my unquenched curiosity, and walking through the Rosendale street festival taking in the sights. As a man on an environmental mission, my thoughts on hydraulic fracturing were still reverberating into the biosphere to anyone who would [...]
Am I a Commie, or a Capitalist?
Samuel Claiborne • September 23rd, 2010
My car is festooned with bumper stickers. Some favorites include “Abstinence Makes the Church Grow Fondlers,” “Alternative Energy is Homeland Security” and “These Colors Don’t Run … the World.” This last one in particular seems to provoke the ire of right-wingers. Recently I picked up a new deer rifle at a local sporting goods store. [...]
