Author Archives: Stephen Carr Hampton

About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.

Relocated Bad River Chippewa town now a model for climate change adaptation

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

From NPR: Wisconsin Reservation Offers A Climate Success Story And A Warning The town wasn’t moving because of climate change, per se, but as people moved out of the flood plain, rainstorms were getting more frequent and severe. There have … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged bad river, Chippewa, climate, climate change, flood, managed retreat, odanah, relocation | Leave a comment

How to stop mega wildfires: Adopt Native land management practices

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Re-posing from my other blog: California apocalypse again: Large wildfires increasing with climate change

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Birders detect dramatic changes as Davis climate warms

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

[A version of this was originally published in the Davis Enterprise.] In 2002, the cover of The New York Times Magazine featured a silhouetted man standing on frosty mauve ice and staring through binoculars into a rosy polar sky. The … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged #climatechange, birding, central valley, climate change, Davis, migrant, orioles, vulture, warbler | Leave a comment

Going nuclear: The high school mascot of mass destruction

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The Richland High School Bombers honors the dropping of atom bombs with school paraphernalia that says “Nuke ’em” over a mushroom cloud. Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged atom bomb, bombers, hanford, Japanese, mascot, Moriguchi, mushroom, nagasaki, Oppenheimer, proud of the cloud, radiation, Richland High School Bombers | 10 Comments

The recovery of the bald eagle: An American success story

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The population of the bald eagle, the US national bird that is also much revered by Native Americans, reflects political trends in the US. In the latter parts of the 1900s, the bald eagle faced extinction, or at least extirpation … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged bald eagle, christmas bird count, data, eagle, endangered species act, recovery | Leave a comment

The US at the abyss: What did we learn from the child separation policy?

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

After several weeks of shock, horror, tears, and rage, we are back from the abyss of war crimes and a level of racial terrorism that seemed unimaginable since the Civil Rights Era. Make no mistake, this was a defining moment … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged #FamiliesBelongTogether, #FamilySeparation, border, child separation, cultural genocide, detention centers, ethnic cleansing, genocide, immigration, policy, trump | Leave a comment

Oil companies have researched climate change for 50 years– accurately

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Long before climate change was controversial, before Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, before the public was even aware of greenhouse gases and sea level rise, the oil industry knew pretty much what we now know today. They have been studying, researching, … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged #climatechange, API, big oil, BP, california, chevron, climate change, CO2, emissions, Exxon, first amended complaint, global warming, ipcc, lawsuit, oakland, research, science, sea level rise, Shell, temperature | 2 Comments

American policy past and present: Ripping brown children from their mothers’ arms

Posted on June 3, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Few images evoke a more visceral reaction than seeing authorities tear children from the arms of their mothers. As the men in uniform pry hands from their mothers’ legs, the children are wide-eyed in terror while the mothers scream in … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged aclu, boarding school, border, child removal, children, ice, immigration, kizzy, mothers, policy, roots, separation, trump | 1 Comment

Billy Frank Jr’s legacy lives on in Washington agriculture

Posted on May 1, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

“Salmon-safe” label spreads across farms in the Pacific Northwest “Billy Frank Jr. is a big reason he decided to change the way he runs his farm. It was Frank who encouraged Wilcox to stop using pesticides, plant trees by waterways … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged agriculture, billy frank, certification, eggs, farms, Nisqually, pesticide, runoff, salmon, salmon-safe | Leave a comment

Cassina tea: History and revival

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Just passing on this link to an interesting article: The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

Posted in reblogs | Tagged cahokia, cassina, ilex vomitoria, Native, tea, yaupon | Leave a comment