Joshua Zaffos

Writing That Flows

Whiskey is for drinking, and water is for reading about. High Country News has released two books of collected articles in 2009 on different aspects of water in the West, and a few of my articles appear in them.

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Plastic bombastic

“Boy, did your mother do a number on you.” If you’ve ever heard that, it may be truer than anyone would like to contemplate. A recent study, reported on in The Washington Post by Juliet Eilperin on November 24, links mothers’ exposures to plasticizing chemicals with “less masculine” playtime for their young sons. The chemicals, [...]

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Buffalove

One of my favorite reporting assignments remains the few days I spent with the Buffalo Field Campaign near West Yellowstone, Montana, in late winter 2005. Perched along Hebgen Lake, the BFC uses direct action and around-the-clock field surveillance to protect Yellowstone-area buffalo and oppose the management policies of the state of Montana, which insists on [...]

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