Boyce Upholt
@boyceupholt.bsky.social
🖊 EIC/Found of Southlands 📖: THE GREAT RIVER: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton) 🏆: Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing
Love seeing @anyagroner.bsky.social's feature for Southlands on this list. (Ugh, do we need a Southlands bluesky account?)
We’ve curated nearly 14,000 stories in the past 16 years and published hundreds of original pieces. Today, we’re kicking off a member drive to keep the stories coming.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Love seeing @anyagroner.bsky.social's feature for Southlands on this list. (Ugh, do we need a Southlands bluesky account?)
Love seeing these land in mailboxes!
Not every day you get a hot, fresh new print magazine in the mail. Congrats to @boyceupholt.bsky.social.
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Love seeing these land in mailboxes!
With Southlands Issue No. 01 getting set to ship next week -- it's time to start thinking about the next issue! See pitch guidelines here:
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Southlands - Issue No. 2 - Contributor Guidelines.docx
Issue No. 2 Pitch Guide Theme: PUBLIC / PRIVATE Updated: October 10, 2025 What is Southlands? Southlands is a new print journal that explores the diverse ways Southerners connect with the natural wo...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
With Southlands Issue No. 01 getting set to ship next week -- it's time to start thinking about the next issue! See pitch guidelines here:
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"Disconnected from the grid after Hurricane Ida, New Orleans went without power for 10 days. That dark week marked the beginning of a social movement that has become a political cause."
@boyceupholt.bsky.social spoke w/ New Orleanians fed up with unaccountable energy providers and ready for change.
@boyceupholt.bsky.social spoke w/ New Orleanians fed up with unaccountable energy providers and ready for change.
Power Shift
In New Orleans, residents frustrated by an unaccountable energy utility are building a network of community resilience hubs to take back their power.
placesjournal.org
August 27, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"Disconnected from the grid after Hurricane Ida, New Orleans went without power for 10 days. That dark week marked the beginning of a social movement that has become a political cause."
@boyceupholt.bsky.social spoke w/ New Orleanians fed up with unaccountable energy providers and ready for change.
@boyceupholt.bsky.social spoke w/ New Orleanians fed up with unaccountable energy providers and ready for change.
When Places Journal asked if I wanted to write about "climate urbanism" in New Orleans, I decided to tackle what felt like the most pressing problem: our rickety old electrical grid. The reporting was, by turns, frustrating, terrifying, and empowering.
placesjournal.org/article/powe...
placesjournal.org/article/powe...
Power Shift
In New Orleans, residents frustrated by an unaccountable energy utility are building a network of community resilience hubs to take back their power.
placesjournal.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
When Places Journal asked if I wanted to write about "climate urbanism" in New Orleans, I decided to tackle what felt like the most pressing problem: our rickety old electrical grid. The reporting was, by turns, frustrating, terrifying, and empowering.
placesjournal.org/article/powe...
placesjournal.org/article/powe...
Y’all! I’m nervous about it, but I’m gonna be live on a PBS News Hour “Tipping Point” special about the Mississippi River on Wednesday night. Tune in here at 6pm CST, July 16:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLoq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLoq...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Y’all! I’m nervous about it, but I’m gonna be live on a PBS News Hour “Tipping Point” special about the Mississippi River on Wednesday night. Tune in here at 6pm CST, July 16:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLoq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLoq...
Ten-ish years ago, I contemplated the academic path, and a PhD in environmental history. I decided that journalism might be more lucrative and (yikes) jury is still out. But it's a field that means a lot to me, so I'm so honored by this review!
As Twain wrote, the Mississippi River is well worth reading about. If you agree—and you should—check out @boyceupholt.bsky.social's book THE GREAT RIVER, which I had the pleasure of reviewing for H-environment.
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🗃️ #EnvHist
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🗃️ #EnvHist
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May 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Ten-ish years ago, I contemplated the academic path, and a PhD in environmental history. I decided that journalism might be more lucrative and (yikes) jury is still out. But it's a field that means a lot to me, so I'm so honored by this review!
This is big news that I wish I had the capacity to drill into much further www.nola.com/news/environ...
More trouble for Louisiana's largest coastal project after Army Corps pulls permit
Here's what we know.
www.nola.com
April 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is big news that I wish I had the capacity to drill into much further www.nola.com/news/environ...
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Someone commission this, please
anyway if any editors want to publish a conservation-oriented review of Abundance / screed about its adherents' total disregard for nature... slide into those DMs.
April 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Someone commission this, please
I love a good bridge but also -- these last remaining forests matter so much...
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An Environmental Impact Statement is Needed for Plaquemine Point | TCLF
Advocates for Plaquemine Point, a peninsula in a bend of the Mississippi River some eight miles south of Baton Rouge, LA, which contains a nationally significant old growth forest, are calling for an ...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I love a good bridge but also -- these last remaining forests matter so much...
www.tclf.org/environmenta...
www.tclf.org/environmenta...
Seeking artists and illustrators who love to spend time outdoors in the South. If you know anyone who fits that bill, please link me to their portfolio 🙏
April 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Seeking artists and illustrators who love to spend time outdoors in the South. If you know anyone who fits that bill, please link me to their portfolio 🙏
Get your eyes on the Mississippi, y'all. We haven't seen anything like this since I started writing the book in 2020. Or more than that: my friend John Ruskey is telling me in his 30 years on the river he's never seen it come up so fast.
April 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Get your eyes on the Mississippi, y'all. We haven't seen anything like this since I started writing the book in 2020. Or more than that: my friend John Ruskey is telling me in his 30 years on the river he's never seen it come up so fast.
Thanks, NASA, we're doing great down here...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...
March 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thanks, NASA, we're doing great down here...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/topic/natura...
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Fuck yeah, goose www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Fuck yeah, goose www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
One more way to gut public lands: ensure the remaining staff members don’t even have an office to work from. www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ma...
Fate unclear on plans by DOGE to ax 15 Arkansas leases, including Buffalo National River HQ | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The federal government plans to terminate 15 real estate leases in Arkansas, including the one for the Buffalo National River's headquarters in Harrison, according to the Department of Government Effi...
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March 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
One more way to gut public lands: ensure the remaining staff members don’t even have an office to work from. www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ma...
Noting this data is far from complete, but Southern parks seem particularly hard hit. Three Southern parks tied for most lost jobs.
Everglades National Park: 15 jobs cut
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 12
Mammoth Cave National Park: 15
Shenandoah National Park: 15
Everglades National Park: 15 jobs cut
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 12
Mammoth Cave National Park: 15
Shenandoah National Park: 15
Here’s How Many Employees Each National Park Is Losing
A nonprofit is tallying up how many NPS employees have been let go from each park. A key asset has been social media posts from terminated employees.
www.outsideonline.com
March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Noting this data is far from complete, but Southern parks seem particularly hard hit. Three Southern parks tied for most lost jobs.
Everglades National Park: 15 jobs cut
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 12
Mammoth Cave National Park: 15
Shenandoah National Park: 15
Everglades National Park: 15 jobs cut
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: 12
Mammoth Cave National Park: 15
Shenandoah National Park: 15
If anyone has posts or details from protests in the South’s national parks, please send them my way.
March 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
If anyone has posts or details from protests in the South’s national parks, please send them my way.
For a few projects, I'm looking for businesses that either (1) have an important post-Katrina recovery story or (2) are in the outdoors industry and are fighting now to recover from Helene. For #1, I'm interested in restaurants for sure but also other kinds of businesses, too. Thanks for any leads!
February 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For a few projects, I'm looking for businesses that either (1) have an important post-Katrina recovery story or (2) are in the outdoors industry and are fighting now to recover from Helene. For #1, I'm interested in restaurants for sure but also other kinds of businesses, too. Thanks for any leads!
What books have or will come out in 2024 that might be of particular interest to Southern naturalists and outdoorsmen and -women?
February 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What books have or will come out in 2024 that might be of particular interest to Southern naturalists and outdoorsmen and -women?
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Reading list as of late: Dylan’s taste in music, Native sovereignty and collective liberation, my own German roots, and making/unmaking the mighty Mississippi by @boyceupholt.bsky.social. #books
February 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reading list as of late: Dylan’s taste in music, Native sovereignty and collective liberation, my own German roots, and making/unmaking the mighty Mississippi by @boyceupholt.bsky.social. #books
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I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.
February 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I have solved Bird Flu. Give the chickens ivermectin. Have the chickens practice Earthing. The problem with their immune systems is they are not touching the soil enough. Coffee enemas for all chickens. Also we must stop reading them Ibram X. Kendi. Eggs will be back and most importantly not gay.
I've never been but I love to see this and will have to go soon. Maybe after I next pick up some shrimp at the Westwego Lot.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
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February 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've never been but I love to see this and will have to go soon. Maybe after I next pick up some shrimp at the Westwego Lot.
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
You know what turns out to be really fun? Commissioning the writers and photographers you love to do cool projects.
February 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
You know what turns out to be really fun? Commissioning the writers and photographers you love to do cool projects.