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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.
Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read
JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
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Through the Bump Gate
A ”bump gate” is a drive-through gate used in rural areas to provide a barrier to livestock but does not require the driver to exit the...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 11, 20243 min read
Dream – Dream - Dream
The year All I have to Do is Dream, the song by the Everly Brothers came out I was 9 years old and attending 4th grade at College...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 4, 20242 min read
Clear Your Throat
Most creeks and rivers in the country have been exploited, used for profit, dammed for recreation or flood control and yet people claim...
Rebecca Jim
May 15, 20243 min read
This Little Tick of Mine
The Black Angus cattle with the yellow ear tags have been looking at me. The image is of one of Louise Arnold’s oil paintings entitled...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 12, 20243 min read
What if it Mattered?
I have been so very proud of your actions to write to FERC and let them know how you feel and tell them YOU DO NOT want to FLOOD! Your...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 9, 20243 min read
There at Hell’s Gate
Loren Waters’ film Meet Me at the Creek ᏗᏂᏠᎯ ᎤᏪᏯ world premiered last month. Her film is a story of hope. We attended the Big Sky...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 22, 20243 min read
Bearing Witness
During the summer of 1964 Freedom Riders trained at Western University, which is now the white bricked portion of Miami University. It...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20244 min read
Western Union
Stories, we are all full of them. A number of years ago, my mother’s youngest sister drove to Oklahoma to visit us at the Big Pasture,...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 1, 20244 min read
Arts and Sciences
The greatest scientists are always artists as well. – Albert Einstein Saturday morning the Oklahoma University research...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 20, 20243 min read
You can buy yourself flowers
I just listened to all the words in Miley Cyrus’ song Flowers and sure enough. You can buy yourself flowers, but you can also buy bushes...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 7, 20243 min read
What You Don’t See
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau Paul, Stephanie and I walked and knocked and talked...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 5, 20243 min read
Heat for the Cold
I have been waking up in a whole new world. The shift is real. The change just settling in with me. The struggle to be warm during these...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 30, 20243 min read
And Then You Win
We are left with questions. What will happen now? And when does NOW begin? What will the new normal be? Two important announcements were...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 23, 20244 min read
Hacked to Death
“It is not so much for the Beauty that the forest makes a claim upon man’s hearts, as for that subtle something, quality of the air that...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 16, 20244 min read
Eye Opening Report
Karman King began by going over the highlights of her resume, from being the aquatic toxicologist during the Exxon Valdez spill to her 35...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 5, 20243 min read
Feed the Birds
When we think about the winter settling in and the trees going dormant, the limbs, with the branches revealed suddenly the winged ones...
Rebecca Jim
Dec 1, 20233 min read
That’s Nuts!
The freezing nights were followed by the sudden drop of the walnut leaves, not singles, but frons laid out as if they had ended the poker...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 27, 20233 min read
Summing up the Summit
EPA’s Region 6 2-Day Environmental Justice Summit was held by zoom and I was invited to present during the first afternoon session. All...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 24, 20233 min read
It’s a Picher Perfect Day
What’s that mean? How could it translate into a Thriller, Horror, or a Musical? There is a great deal of interest in Picher. What it was....
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20233 min read
We Start as Water
No other words would have been appropriate for starting the 25th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference. The words begin the poem by...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 18, 20233 min read
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