STORIES

On the Codependence of Humans and Honey Bees

Ph.D. student Brenda Kellar has been working on the history of honey bee migration along with human beings in the United States.  Her article “Honeybees Across America,” began as a research presentation to the Oregon Beekeepers’ Association, and now has been picked up by the Los Angeles County Beekeepers Association.  She shows how at critical […]

Reflection: And God said “No”

by Tracy Jamison* Mark Lynas is an optimist. On February 29th, Mr. Lynas lectured here at OSU at LaSells Stewart Center on his book, The God Species. According to Mr. Lynas, humans are a God species and consequently we have to “run the planet as if we were gods”. Not the kind of Gods found […]

Finley challenges the science of Maximum Sustainable Yield

Congratulations to Carmel Finley, who has published a new book that calls into question one of the longest standing concepts in fisheries and marine science.  The book, All the Fish in the Sea: Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management (Chicago, 2011), is the first sustained historical treatment of MSY in the United […]