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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. Lydia Millet

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Lydia Millet

Oil drilling and coal mining are killing endangered wildlife, polluting rivers, creating smog over wilderness areas and blocking wildlife corridors in America's most treasured landscapes. Lydia Millet

Wilderness Wildlife Mining Corridor Drilling Area Rivers Over Most Blocking Endangered America Oil Polluting Creating Landscapes Coal Treasured

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in. Lydia Millet

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In Hiroshima, bombed Aug. 6, 1945, no warning was given of the air attack, and thus no escape was possible for the mostly women, children and old people who fell victim. Lydia Millet

Women People Old Victim Air Possible Given Attack Thus Fell Mostly Hiroshima Escape Children Old People Warning Who Bombed

Economic and health statistics, as well as police-violence statistics, shed light on the pressures on American Indian communities and individuals: Indian youths have the highest suicide rate of any United States ethnic group. Lydia Millet

When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. Lydia Millet

Willful Indians Mainstream Blindness America American American Indians Suffers

Indeed, the hype around 'Watchmen' is its curse. If you want to enjoy the comic for what it is, ignore the attributions of literariness and the novelistic pretensions with which some critics have imbued it. This isn't high culture, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's good, juicy pulp fiction with a little nuclear apocalypse thrown in. Lydia Millet

Good You Culture Hype Enjoy Pulp Fiction Indeed High Pretend Critics Some Thrown Around Comic Juicy Curse Want Fiction Which Little Apocalypse Ignore Nuclear Watchmen Pulp

In October 2014, for the first time in almost three-quarters of a century, a gray wolf was seen loping along the forested North Rim of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona. She had walked hundreds of miles, probably from Wyoming or Idaho. Lydia Millet

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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.' Lydia Millet

Best Family Books Almost Almost All Read Were His Child Loved

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. Lydia Millet

Teacher Heart Sleeve Punches Fable Wears Powerful Partly Makes

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