Kenneth Brower

Kenneth Brower is an environmental writer who published his first story 55 years ago, when he was 14, in this magazine. His recent books are The Wildness Within: Remembering David Brower and Hetch Hetchy: Undoing a Great American Mistake.

The Atolls of Arkansas

Doomed by climate change, Marshall Islanders find a new home in Springdale

By Kenneth Brower December 27, 2018

In this story: climate change

Some 15,000 Marshallese live in Springdale, Arkansas. Among them are JP Hemos (with ukulele) and Jelly Laikidrik.

On the Power of the Sierra Club Cup

Kenneth Brower reflects on the meaning of his father's metal goblets

By Kenneth Brower February 12, 2015

In this story: wilderness, adventure, food and drink

Kenneth Brower reflects on the "talismanic power" of his father's metal goblet

Reclaiming Wilderness

It tells us who we are, and we lose it at our peril

By Kenneth Brower June 4, 2014

In this story: saving wild places, wilderness

Wandering among the alien rock formations of New Mexico's Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area, visitors often lose all sense of scale. This spire, known as a hoodoo, is barely six feet tall.

Viansa Wetlands: Resurrection of a California Marsh

Just add water

By Kenneth Brower November 1, 2001

In this story: wetlands

Leopold's Gift

Today's movement to restore wild places began more than half a century ago in a shack in rural Wisconsin.

By Kenneth Brower January 1, 2001

In this story: rivers, water, saving wild places

Kenneth Brower

The Atolls of Arkansas

On the Power of the Sierra Club Cup

Reclaiming Wilderness

Viansa Wetlands: Resurrection of a California Marsh

Leopold's Gift

The Sierra Club

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