Paul Rosenberg is a California-based writer. He’s been a columnist for Al Jazeera English and Salon.com, and has written for dozens of daily and weekly papers including the Des Moines Register, the Dallas Morning News and the Christian Science Monitor. He is senior editor at Random Lengths News, an alternative biweekly based in San Pedro, California.
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Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?
Virginia tree farmers reintroduce an iconic tree that was decimated by blight.
November 14, 2025
The Trees at the Center of Our History
Recovering the meaning the white pines, and other trees had for past generations, and—like Mayer’s project with Charles Johnson’s oak—finding imaginative ways to add new meaning and propagate it forward can play a significant role in helping us to reorient the trajectory of the history we make going forward in a more respectful and sustainable direction for all.
November 6, 2025