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
you'll have to wait a few years, but the plan for book 2 is to focus on this -- though through the lens of meat in particular
November 30, 2025 at 10:26 PM
you'll have to wait a few years, but the plan for book 2 is to focus on this -- though through the lens of meat in particular
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This week Jesse talks to Southlands founder and editor @boyceupholt.bsky.social about Southerners' relationship to our natural surroundings — and about a new book Upholt has also written, about the history and destiny of the Mississippi River. theprogressivesouth.org/headlights-e...
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This week Jesse talks to Southlands founder and editor @boyceupholt.bsky.social about Southerners' relationship to our natural surroundings — and about a new book Upholt has also written, about the history and destiny of the Mississippi River. theprogressivesouth.org/headlights-e...
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:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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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.
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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.
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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...
thanks for reading, Mike. Such decisions are beyond my pay grade at Smithsonian, but as someone launching my own pub I can say it makes for complex decisions. I’m not convinced paring back on support for good publications is the best way to fight Trump in this moment.
July 4, 2025 at 1:01 PM
thanks for reading, Mike. Such decisions are beyond my pay grade at Smithsonian, but as someone launching my own pub I can say it makes for complex decisions. I’m not convinced paring back on support for good publications is the best way to fight Trump in this moment.
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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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!
The Corps, in its letters, cites a series of letters the agency received from Gordon Dove (new head of the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority). Seems important that those get in the hands of a reporter so we can better see what's going on here...
April 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Corps, in its letters, cites a series of letters the agency received from Gordon Dove (new head of the state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority). Seems important that those get in the hands of a reporter so we can better see what's going on here...
I'd like to know a lot more about what Landry at el considering worrying in the withheld report (which is here: www.mvn.usace.army.mil/LinkClick.as...). What he leaves out, too, is how the Corps cites the state's new reluctance to build this thing as changing the economic analysis
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April 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I'd like to know a lot more about what Landry at el considering worrying in the withheld report (which is here: www.mvn.usace.army.mil/LinkClick.as...). What he leaves out, too, is how the Corps cites the state's new reluctance to build this thing as changing the economic analysis
Here is Landry's melodramatic tweet, describing this as a Grisham-esque legal thriller and accusing former Gov. John Bel Edwards of withholding information. BUT...
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April 27, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Here is Landry's melodramatic tweet, describing this as a Grisham-esque legal thriller and accusing former Gov. John Bel Edwards of withholding information. BUT...
x.com/LAGovJeffLan...
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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 🙏
Most of the flora and fauna are adapted to it — this is what big rivers do! — and the levees will protect most of us, but there are definitely some low spots that will be hard for farmers to drain. It’s just gonna be tough on tow boats and give the Army Corps a lot of work!
April 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Most of the flora and fauna are adapted to it — this is what big rivers do! — and the levees will protect most of us, but there are definitely some low spots that will be hard for farmers to drain. It’s just gonna be tough on tow boats and give the Army Corps a lot of work!
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...
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March 31, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Thanks, NASA, we're doing great down here...
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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
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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.