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Kelly Akashi, A Device to See the World Twice. Photo courtesy of The Clark.

Currently situated or hidden throughout the landscape of the Clarks 140 acres of forest and field are the works of half a dozen female artists. One could see this outdoor exhibition, guest curated by Molly Epstein and Abigail Ross Goodman, as particularly apt for this moment, although Ground/work was not intended as a response to the pandemic. Meant to open in late spring, the showcase was in fact pushed back repeatedly by virus related difficulties until finally opening in the first week of October.

I put the word opening in quotes only because many of these works have actually been installed for quite some time now, with the recent arrival of Hague Yangs Migratory DMZ Birds on Asymmetric Lens completing the showcase. Yet, at the same time, each of these installations seems to create an intimate experience with its specific location, whether that be in the woods or flush against a wall. With this in mind, each piece operates on its own in a way, independent of any other piece or even an opening date. The affect of these six works, amplified by their specifically selected locales, is a welcome addition to the Clarks continuing contemporary endeavors.

Each of these six artists Kelly Akashi, Nairy Baghramian, Jennie C. Jones, Eva LeWitt, Analia Saban, and Haegue Yang began their work with a visit to the museum to select a site for their piece. With the knowledge that the exhibition would run for the next year, each artist was also faced with the question of how to incorporate the transience of the landscape. How these pieces will interact with the winter, spring and summer months, we have yet to see; the current autumn foliage, however, will be a tough act to follow.

Jennie C. Jones These (Mournful) Shores is the closest piece to the Clark Center itself, although it could easily be missed by a passerby. The work attaches to the outer edge of the granite wall that borders the reflecting pool, appearing as almost a natural extension of the wall itself. A minimalist interpretation of an Aeolian Harp, also known as the wind harp, Jones piece is activated by wind and inspired by the turbulent weather depicted in Homers iconic Eastern Point and West Point, Prouts Neck. The harps cherry wood innards also reference the trans-Atlantic trade which not only delivered such commodities but the thousands of enslaved people who produced them. Both sonically and aesthetically haunting, These (Mournful) Shores is a powerful first foray into outdoor art for Jones.

Leaving the reflecting pool to journey up stone hill, the next piece one encounters also seems to be hidden in plain sight. Analia Sabans Teaching a Cow How to Draw is perhaps the most functional of all the Ground/work pieces, in that it serves an explicit function:fencing in the resident cow herd in the pasture. The title of the work refers to the design of each fence frame, alluding to classical perspectival drawing instructions. Framing the surrounding landscape as the canvas, Sabans work seems to posit the cows as the artists, in stark contrast with the Old Masters in the permanent collection below. In drawing this parallel, Teaching a Cow How to Draw creates a moment of absurdity which feels appropriate.

Next on the horizon is Eva Lewitts Resin Towers A, B, and C, three multicolored columns standing 11 feet tall. Assembled from hand-cut pieces of colorful plastic suspended in layers of transparent resin, further inspection of each tower reveals a sphere motif, contracting and unfurling with extended viewing. The work establishes an interesting binary: whereas the transparency of the resin allows for the towers to merge with and absorb the surrounding landscape, the kitsch of the fluorescent colors seems to diverge from this integration. The bright palette of these towers, the Clark website states, acts as a beacon, calling down the hill and beckoning visitors to their site.

Beyond this beacon sits Nairy Baghramians Knee & Elbow, two roughly chiseled marble sculptures resting in the grass which have drawn visitors of the human and bovine sort [insert pic of cows in sculpture]. Trying to transfer the figurative act into abstraction, Baghramian created these two hand-hewn forms, one pink and one white, riddled with pockmarks; the texture of their exterior stands in sharp contrast to their sleek, polished interior, and the steel couplers bones, perhaps? which attach them. Playing off of the classicizing traditions of marble and constructions of whiteness, Baghramians work hovers just beyond abstraction in its allusion to joints and pivot points and in revealing the fragile nature of marble, Knee & Elbow is able to confront essential questions of self-optimization and the potential for collapse.

Hidden in a thicket of trees is Kelly Akashis A Device to See the World Twice. A massive distorting lens a magnifying glass of sorts, supported by bronze cast branches Akashi had positioned this work to focus on an ancient elm tree. Funnily enough, the tree cracked and fell over in the spring, a strange premonition of the destruction this year would bring. Rather than training the lens on a different subject, however, Akashi left it as is, now centered on a fragmented memory of what once was. Tucked away in a blanket of green, Akashis installation asks questions regarding viewership, distortion, and the transience of time. In highlighting the ruins of a subject rather than its ideal, Akashi sublimates and highlights the (inevitable) decay of art.

The last piece to arrive and perhaps the most difficult to locate is Hague Yangs three-part installation, Migratory DMZ Birds on Asymmetric Lens, which introduces an avian diaspora of sorts to the Berkshires. Yang was inspired by the April 2018 meeting of North and South Korean leaders in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a lush and biodiverse area 160 miles long by 2.5 miles wide located between the two countries. At one point during this pivotal meeting, the leaders requested to speak in private, leaving only the birds as witness to their conversations. These three pieces employ 3-D printed resin birds set atop robotically milled stone pedestals, egg-like in nature. Considering notions of presence and absence, these synthetic birds both occupy space and vanish, creating an unusual dialogue with their living counterparts in the Berkshires.

In the month that it has officially been open, Ground/work has already been the stage for dynamic artistic interventions. Sunday, Oct. 18 saw Professor Amy Podmores Poetry with Objects course (which I am a part of) collaborate with Brad Wells Sound Art, Public Music class to create wearable, sculptural, distancing apparatuses accompanied by sound components that were used to safely and communally walk and view the Ground/work installation [insert photo from this]. And just as these pieces have been the stage for intimate encounters with the public, these works are sure to continue interacting unexpectedly with their environments as well for the next year that they are on display. A balm for these troubled times, Ground/work shines as the Clarks first outdoor exhibition taking on new levels of meaning from our current moment while simultaneously providing a reflective space to process it.

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Natural high: escape to the Clark Art Institutes first-ever outdoor exhibition

Titled Ground/work, the Institutes first outdoor exhibition seessculptures by Nairy Bagrahmian, Eva LeWitt and Kelly Akashi set against thebucolic landscape of the Berkshires in Massachusetts

With indoor activities largely restricted in the United States, what better way to make the most of sprawling grounds than to stage an exhibition of outdoor art? For the Clark Art Institute, located amidst the bucolic landscape of the Berkshires in Massachusetts, the timing coincided with a larger ambition to extend the museums presence beyond its physical walls. Its inaugural outdoor show entitled Ground/work is guest curated by Molly Epstein and Abigail Ross Goodman, and sees a collection of newly commissioned, site-responsive works from six leading contemporary artists situated around the institutes 140-acre site.

While many may know the Clarks memorable setting for its iconic Tadao Ando-designed building and courtyard garden, the fact that its surrounding woodland trails, rolling hills and open meadows are publically accessible is a bit of a local secret. Now forming the backdrop for its first official exhibition, the institutes incredible grounds offer newfound space to expand its curatorial vision.

Eva LeWitt,Resin Towers A, B, and C, 2020.Courtesy of the artist andVI, VII, Oslo

The Clark has a unique and varied natural setting woodland trails, open meadows, expansive vistas, cloistered areas for contemplation that is open to the public day and night throughout the seasons without fee or mitigation: a highly rare offering to accompany a renowned permanent collection and research institution, share curators Epstein and Goodman. Olivier Meslay, director of the Clark, approached us in 2017 about his vision for the first-ever outdoor exhibition to take place at the Institute, which was motivated by a desire to further activate and engage the 140-acre campus which surrounds the museum buildings. With the landscape as our prompt, we spent time researching, travelling and visiting artists in their studios. We then invited this group of six makers to visit the Clark, so that each could identify a site, and consider the possibilities for a new site-responsive commission for the exhibition.

The exhibition will remain open throughout the four seasons until October 2021, offering a novel expression of themes of duration, transformation and interconnectivity.

As Meslay says, For Ground/work, our meadows and woodlands serve as a kind of natural gallery, offering visitors the opportunity to venture beyond our institutional walls and contemplate vibrant and inspiring contemporary works set amid the remarkable natural beauty that surrounds them.

Analia Saban,Teaching a CowHow to Draw, 2020. Courtesy of the artist and Tanya BonakdarGallery, New York / Los Angeles

The artists featured in the show include Kelly Akashi, Nairy Baghramian, Jennie C. Jones, Eva LeWitt, Analia Saban, and Haegue Yang, and each artists work responds to its surroundings, the environment and even the museums permanent collection in an individualised way. In Sabans tongue-in-cheek adaptation of a length of split-rail fence, cows who pasture in the Clarks fields are invited to consider the art viewing experience in Teaching a Cow How to Draw. Nairy Bagrahmians sculptures Knee and Elbowabstractly portray these primary joints in the human body in marble and steel, while set in a particularly meditative patch of the grounds Stone Hill pasture.

The siting of each project is grounded in the specificity of the artists unique visions, and we were lucky that it came into being rather organically, say Epstein and Goodman. The result is a show that unfolds through wandering - there is no prescriptive order or hierarchical process of making ones way through the landscape, and we hope that this freedom translates for visitors as a new awareness of the possibilities that both art and nature provide.

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I made it3,014 miles in 58 days. There were a few times I had my doubts, as in the Panhandle town of Booker, where I felt very close to calling it quits. Ive had some difficult days, but many more great days. Then there were days like those spent in and around Big Bend that were challenging, yet very rewarding.

Ive seen more of Texas in the last two months than I had in the previous twelve years, since moving here in 2008. But of course, there is so much more to see, mainly all that stuff in the middle. I already have a few more adventures bouncing around in my head, like the ride Josh Spradling and I have dubbed Saint to Saint, a two- or three-day bike and camping trip from St. Elmo Brewing in Austin to Saint Arnold Brewing in Houston. Look for that in 2021, hopefully. For now, I think Ill be sticking close to home.

Ive received messages and comments telling me this journey has been inspiring. I love to hear that. I hope my trip encourages others to take on their own adventures. But also, I think its important to acknowledge the massive privilege I have in taking on something like this. Times are hard right now and just having a full-time job is truly a blessing, not to mention a job that will allow me to wander off on a two-month excursion. There are inherent dangers in taking on any bike trip, but as a white, cisgender, heterosexual man, I had an easier and less risky time of it than many would have. All this being said, I hope everyone is able to find adventure and exploration in any way they see fit.

This week, admittedly, was not super exciting and adventurous, but it was the final leg of a grand journey. Im glad I was able to spend it with friends, new and old, and have my family waiting for me at the finish line.

I had a relaxed morning in my motel. I even had time to make a cup of coffee and watch the news. Because of my long ride the day before from Sanderson, I only had a short thirty-mile ride to Del Rio. It was overcast the entire day and the first half of the ride was misty. I was definitely not in West Texas anymore. The hills had almost flattened and the vegetation thickened, even if it was mostly shrubs. Twenty miles into the ride I pulled out my phone to switch podcasts and the phone slipped out of my hand and bounced into the main part of the road. I slammed my breaks and quickly hopped off my bike as an eighteen-wheeler barreled toward my phone. The wheels missed crushing my phone by a few inches, and my heart fluttered. I took this as a sign that, even though there will be tough days on this tour, I will finish safely and in one piece. Not really. I was just happy that I didnt have to buy a new phone in Del Rio and I could still listen to the next episode of Tom Browns Body.

I passed over the Amistad Reservoir on the Governors Landing Bridge, which seemed to take forever. I tricked myself into thinking I was almost to Del Rio after getting across the bridge, but there were still about ten miles to go; I took them at a leisurely pace. I arrived in Del Rio just in time for lunch, so I treated myself to Buffalo Wild Wings lunch special and a beer on the empty patio.

Photograph by Aaron Chamberlain

This ride was hillier than I thought it would be. I got the wrong impression the day before, when the landscape appeared to be flattening out. I guess I had to wait till the I got to the Valley before things actually leveled out. Almost every hill I climbed had a Border Patrol vehicle on the side of the highway or off in the grass. I probably passed at least twenty patrol vehicles during my 57-mile ride. Other than that, it was pretty mundane. The highlight for me was passing through the quaint tiny town of Quemado. Sadly, most of the more interesting-looking businesses were closed. A couple cafes were open that seemed to be solely patronized by Border Patrol agents. I spent my time in town at the Oasis Grocery, where I sat outside eating candied peanuts and drinking Gatorade and coffee.

One problem on a longish boring ride, besides the boredom, are the mental battles that come up. Like a tingling ache in your knee that you cant stop noticing. On this particular ride, I had a twenty-mile stretch where I couldnt get my mind off my saddle. I kept asking myself questions like, Has it always been this uncomfortable? or Will I ever get comfortable again? I cant ride the rest of the trip like this. The only way to get out of a funk like this is to distract yourself long enough for your mind to move on to the next annoyance. Listening to music or making a phone call can usually change my mind-set. I finally made it into Eagle Pass and my hotel. Beat, I had just enough energy to walk across the street to Sonic for a soggy chicken sandwich.

This was my last rest day of the trip. Josh Spradling, my friend and Austin Beer Guide business partner, came down to ride with me and offer support for a couple days. He also brought beers from Meanwhile Brewing, Austins newest brewery, which opened while I was on this trip, as well as ones from St. Elmo, Live Oak, and Zilker. This was a good distraction before launching into the final leg of the trip.

Photograph by Aaron Chamberlain

While I was getting ready for the days ride, Josh went out for a quick run. When he got back, we set off toward Catarina on our bikes. He was going to ride with me for a while and then head back to the hotel to pack up the truck and meet me farther down the road. I suggested he should do a few laps in the pool to get in a quick triathlon. After about 25 minutes he turned back to Eagle Pass. I dont think he went for a swim.

I pushed on thirty or so miles to Carrizo Springs. There, I met back up with Josh near the courthouse, where early voting was in full swing. After a brief stop at Valero for corndogs and Gatorade, I was back at it and Josh went to our hotel to drop off our stuff. We were staying in Carrizo Springs, but Josh would pick me up in Catarina and we would return to the hotel for the night. Outside Carrizo Springs, the brushy landscape I had become accustomed to in the last three days slowly shifted to one dotted with trees. They werent big trees, but they were trees none the less. At the edge of Catarina is a historic hotel that Id been looking forward to seeing, after spotting it many times on Google Street View in the planning stages of the trip. But as I turned the corner into town, I noticed that all the windows were blown out and that obvious signs of fire damage marked the sides of the building. The entire building had been demolished. Josh later sent me an article about how the hotel had been set ablaze during a thunderstorm in May. Needless to say, it was sort of a depressing note to end my ride on.

We woke up to the news of the passing of Jerry Jeff Walker. Growing up in Florida, the son of Yankees, I was not familiar with his music. It was not until I moved to Texas that I was properly schooled on his tunes. The news was an ominous start to the day. Also, it was unusually chilly for South Texas, but not too cold for riding. I much prefer a cool start and being able to ride in a flannel.

Josh dropped me off in Catarina and we made plans to meet up twenty miles down the road, where he would cut east toward Interstate 35 to head home and I would continue south to Laredo. A large chunk of U.S. 83 south of Catarina was under construction, leaving me with only a tiny sliver of a shoulder for maneuvering. Eighteen-wheelers whizzed past me with only a couple feet of buffer. This was unnerving, but most moved over and gave me plenty of room. The construction ended just in time to meet up with Josh on the side of the road. I grabbed my bags from his car and attached them to my bike. We waved goodbye and once again, I was alone with a fully loaded bike. A few miles after leaving Josh, I came across a group of four cows that began running as I approached. They ran parallel with me on the other side of a fence for at least a minute. Luckily I was going downhill or I wouldnt have been able to keep up with them. Ive never seen cows run that fast or that long.

After a few more hills, it was all downhill into Laredo, via the I-35 frontage road. I ended the night with a Whataburger spicy chicken sandwich and the new Borat movie. Very nice!

Photograph by Aaron Chamberlain

Id stayed on the north side of Laredo the night before, so the beginning of my ride took me through the city, including downtown and past the bridge to Mexico. It was a fun way to start the day. Once out of town, I took my time riding through the rolling hills. I was in no rush. I had planned on camping that evening, so I didnt want to show up too early in Zapata just to sit in the hot afternoon sun. I passed through San Ygnacio about halfway through the ride. Its the oldest town in Zapata County and home to a few historic sights, including a sundial from 1851. Looking back, I wish I had taken a few minutes to steer my bike around the town. I did spend a little bit of time at the Valero on U.S. 83, though.

My plan was to camp at Oso Blanco Motel and RV Park, but when I arrived I learned that it had neither showers or bathrooms for campers. I had three days left. For thirty bucks more, I took a motel room. The worst part about this was that I had been carrying all my camping gear on my bike since Sanderson, just for this one night of camping. This was a big bike touring failure on my part. Im still learning. I got over it pretty quickly after a hot shower. While dining on tuna and crackers, I watched one of my new favorite shows that I had discovered on this trip, Below Deck.

I woke up and heard the wind blowing. I checked my phone only to find out it was a headwind and it would be coming at me around 15 miles per hour and gusting up to 25 miles per hour, all day long. I wanted to stay in bed but reminded myself how close I was to the endonly three more days to go. I groaned and rolled out of bed, packed my stuff on the bike, and set out. Most of the day I was skirting the edge of Falcon Lake, and it was so damn hilly. I was climbing more hills than I had since my ride from Sanderson to Comstock. But I knew after today, the rest of my ride was going to be flat as a pancake. With the hills and the wind, I was creeping. Going uphill I was struggling to hit 8 miles per hour. Then the dogs started coming out. I think I was chased by no fewer than fifteen dogs, all running out from their yards to run after me along U.S. 83. Trying to outrun a German shepherd while riding up a hill in a headwind was one of the hardest aspects of this trip so far. It was a beautiful day, though, sunny and in the eighties. On another day, this might have been a wonderful ride.

I slowly made my way to Roma, fifteen miles out of Rio Grande City, taking breaks often. The rode from Roma to Rio Grande City was absolutely atrocious. Most of the time there was no shoulder and the traffic was frustratingly heavy around 2 p.m. This may be the worst stretch of road Ive ridden on in the last two months, worse than Death Highway in the Permian Basin. I was elated to make it to my hotel. This was not a good day, and I was glad to be done with it. To torture myself I checked the winds for my final two days; to my surprise, they looked good. I crossed my fingers and knocked on wood.

Photograph by Aaron Chamberlain

The finger crossing and the knocking worked, because I woke up and the wind was blowing sixteen miles per hour in the direction I was headed. With just over fifty miles to ride today, plus barely any hills and a tailwind, things were looking good. I had made plans to ride with Pedro Arnulfo, a photographer and Instagram buddy from Mission. We got on the road by 8:30 a.m. and we were immediately rolling easy with the tailwind. He gave me lots of options on routes. I just told him Id prefer to stay away from traffic as much as possible. Pedro knew exactly when and where to turn to avoid traffic and even some hills. He showed me points of interest left and right, like the Santa Cruz monument atop a hill just outside Rio Grande City and La Lomita Chapel, a historic Catholic site in Mission that became a point of dispute in 2018 when its land was set to be seized by the Border Patrol. The ride was the polar opposite of the day before. We had a tailwind, the sun was hidden behind clouds, and it was pretty much flat. There were dogs, though, and we were chased often. Soon enough we had made it to Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, where we ended our ride. My brother-in-law, Javier del Castillo, met us there and drove us back to McAllen. That night we were staying at Premier Martial Arts, Eric and Leticia Arriagas martial arts school (theyre my brother and sister-in-law). I counted this as camping. Once we arrived there, we parted ways with Pedro and went for a barbecue lunch at Smokin Moon BBQ. It was Texas Monthlys BBQ Week, so as a loyal employee I did my best to eat a huge lunch. For dessert we made our way to a local clinic for a COVID-19 test. It was a precautionary measure, as I was about to arrive at my in-laws after spending the last two months traipsing around Texas. Thankfully, I tested negative.

Since Denver City, Ive been carrying around leg warmers and arm warmers. I finally got to wear the leg warmers on this final day, in the Rio Grande Valley, no less. Temps were in the mid-forties when we woke up. When we got to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, I didnt want to get out of the truck. The winds were wild, some of the strongest Id felt since the Panhandle. As luck would have it, they favored me for the day. Id arranged to ride with Marcos Mancha, an Edinburg firefighter. He was going to meet me somewhere down the road. I began my ride and was making great time. In fact, I was going too fast. I had made plans with my family and some friends from Brownsville to meet at the end point around noon; at this speed, Id be way too early. I joined Javier fifteen miles down the road for one last tailgate coffee. We were sipping our coffee when Marcos pulled up. He had worked a 24-hour shift and came straight to meet me for the ride. I guzzled the rest of my coffee and we were on our way.

We zipped down Military Highway and rode into Brownsville without much effort. But we were early. We had to kill at least 45 minutes, so I suggested we ride over to 7th & Park, a coffee and bike shop. There we met the owner, Graham Sevier-Schultz, who graciously bought us our coffees. We talked about the trip and riding in Brownsville. As we finished our coffees it was approaching noon, but some of my family had not made it to my finish line at Xeriscape Park. Dont worry, I am not going to call them out here. Once I knew the entire family was within walking distance of the park, we shoved off from the shop and headed toward the Gateway International Bridge across from the park. It was a short five-minute ride through downtown Brownsville along Elizabeth Street. Anticlimactically, I was stopped by a traffic light just across an intersection from the park, where my family and a few journalists were waiting, my family hooting and hollering. As I pulled into the intersection and across to the park, I had a big grin on my face under my buff. Everyone in my family had on T-shirts adorned with the jagged map of Texas I had drawn with my bike over the past 58 days. We hugged and slowly popped open a bottle of sparkling cider. I took a little time to be interviewed by a couple reporters and have our pictures taken. Then just like that, it was over and we were driving back to my in-laws house. I heard they had beer there.

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OSU fire researcher Chris Dunn examines a several-hundred-year-old Douglas fir that stood at the entrance of Delta Campground on the McKenzie River. The tree was cut as a hazard tree after the Holiday Farm Fire.

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This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

As thousands of Oregon homes burned to rubble last month, the states politicians joined the timber industry in blaming worsening wildfires on the lack of logging.

Echoing a longstanding belief in the state that public forests are the problem, U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, a Republican who represents eastern Oregon, equated the federal governments management to that of a slum lord. And Democratic Gov. Kate Brown on Face the Nation accused Republicans in the state Legislature of blocking measures, proposed by a wildfire council, that would have increased logging on public lands.

In the decades since government restrictions reduced logging on federal lands, the timber industry has promoted the idea that private lands are less prone to wildfires, saying that forests thick with trees fuel bigger, more destructive blazes. An analysis by OPB and ProPublica shows last months fires burned as intensely on private forests with large-scale logging operations as they did, on average, on federal lands that cut fewer trees.

In fact, private lands that were clear-cut in the past five years, with thousands of trees removed at once, burned slightly hotter than federal lands, on average. On public lands, areas that were logged within the past five years burned with the same intensity as those that hadnt been cut, according to the analysis.

The belief people have is that somehow or another we can thin our way to low-intensity fire that will be easy to suppress, easy to contain, easy to control. Nothing could be further from the truth, said Jack Cohen, a retired U.S. Forest Service scientist who pioneered research on how homes catch fire.

The timber industry has sought to frame logging as the alternative to catastrophic wildfires through advertising, legislative lobbying and attempts to undermine research that has shown forests burn more severely under industrial management, according to documents obtained by OPB, The Oregonian/OregonLive and ProPublica.

This years wildfires were among the worst that Oregon has experienced. They destroyed more than 4,000 homes across the state and consumed about 1 million acres of public and private land, nearly double the acreage as in previous years. Extreme winds drove fires across federal forest and industrial timber plantations, down through canyons and into populated areas like Sam Drevos community of Gates, about 45 minutes east of Salem.

Drevo stepped outside of his home Labor Day evening and saw flames racing down a clear-cut hillside a quarter-mile away. He and his mother had time only to grab a bag of clothes before evacuating.

Im still kind of spinning. Its hard to believe what just happened, said Drevo, a 44-year-old river guide. The devastation of the loss, everything we lost in the house, everything that was sentimental to me. Its just really hard to cope with that.

Sam Drevo walks through wildfire damage in September 2020 in the town of Gates, Ore., where he owned a home and river guide business.

Tyler Westfall

As fires continue to threaten communities from California to Colorado, state and federal lawmakers have prioritized logging ahead of methods scientists say provide the best chance for limiting damage from wildfires, including prescribed use of fire to clear brush and programs that could help make homes like Drevos more resistant to wildfire.

This country has a huge amount of money, Cohen said, noting that annual firefighting costs have surpassed $3 billion nationally. But if you have a misperception of what the problem is, if you continually define it as a wildfire control problem, then that money largely goes into ineffective kinds of uses.

After last months fires, the Oregon Forest & Industries Council, a statewide timber lobbying organization, spent thousands of dollars on Facebook advertisements promoting forest management to reduce wildfire risks. Four industry groups, including the council, published an opinion piece calling for the state to unite around logging, thinning and prescribed burns to reduce the buildup of dead and diseased trees on federal lands.

Sara Duncan, spokeswoman for the council, said logging is an effective tool for slowing wildfires. She said that this years fires, which burned more than 250,000 acres of logged industrial timberland in western Oregon, should be treated as an outlier because of winds that fueled unanticipated damage.

In such an extreme event, any land would have burned, managed or not, Duncan said in an email.

The idea of managing forests to prevent wildfires began gaining popularity in the 1990s, after logging on public lands plummeted following court battles that led to protections for threatened species like the northern spotted owl.

Related: The fight over trees, owls and the natural world that tore the Northwest apart

Proponents of more logging have argued that a rise in the number of large fires in recent decades coincided with the slowdown in timber sales on federal lands.

In 2018, the Oregon Forest & Industries Council launched a campaign that featured a simple message: Managed Forests Do Good Things. Catastrophic Wildfires Do Bad Things. The campaign aims to build a high-quality, on-line community of activists who will advocate for the industry to policymakers and elected officials, according to an internal strategy document obtained by OPB, ProPublica and The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Over the past decade, 80% of the acres burned in the state have been on federal land, according to data from the Oregon Department of Forestry. The disparity in acres burned is in part because 60% of Oregon forests are managed by the federal government. Most of those forestlands are in drier, remote areas prone to more frequent fire, compared with private forest lands.

Fires on private industrial timberlands can be more quickly suppressed because firefighters have more access through roads, making data that shows the intensity or severity of fires an incomplete metric for damage, industry groups said.

More important is how the fire spreads and how easy it is to control, Duncan said in an email. Fires on private forestlands are easier to put out because fuels are more receptive to suppression efforts, and access is maintained through roads.

A young tree plantation on private land south of the McKenzie River did not survive the Holiday Farm Fire.

Jes Burns / OPB

Because the state and federal governments have tried to put out every wildfire for decades, forests that would have been cleared of vegetation by frequent, naturally occurring fires became overgrown. Logging or thinning could provide jobs and wood for local mills, but scientists say it wont prevent destructive wildfires like the ones the state experienced this year.

Logging doesnt eliminate the underbrush, twigs and tree needles that fire feeds on. Removing brush and debris requires fire. That includes prescribed fire, using drip torches to safely burn across the forest floor during cooler weather.

A forest that is thinned must then be purposely burned to reduce wildfire spread. In Oregon, more than 1 million acres of federal land have been thinned in the past 10 years, while landscape burning has been completed on less than half that amount, according to data from the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

Homes most often ignite from flying embers, not flames, and research from the U.S. Geological Survey found vegetation levels on public lands were a poor predictor of home destruction in a wildfire.

Scientists with the U.S. Forest Service and wildfire insurance industry say adapting communities to withstand wildfire by clearing vegetation and using fire-resistant construction like closed eaves, covered vents and double-pane windows provide the best chance to prevent home losses.

In Oregon, neither the state nor federal government track money spent on preventing home ignitions.

Matt Donegan, a former timber investor and consultant who led Browns Wildfire Response Council, acknowledged thinning may not be effective in the rainy forests of western Oregon because the trees would grow back before wildfire.

A recently logged hillside burns on Potato Hill just outside the community of Gates, Ore., during the 2020 Labor Day fires.

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Donegan said the damage caused by wildfires this year, which was almost entirely on the west side of the state, will likely prompt a special legislative session. He expects a debate over how much state funding should go toward fireproofing private residences.

I think one of the most vexing topics Oregon will face is what do you do with the west side forests? Donegan said. Wildfire there is not going to happen often, but when it does, my heavens, the impacts are so great.

The governors wildfire council put forth a set of recommendations this year that

included increasing the states firefighting capacity, creating a buffer around homes and requiring electric companies to shut down power lines during high winds.

The councils most expensive recommendation called for the state to spend $4 billion over the next 20 years on forest management, primarily on thinning. Funding for the proposal would have covered fewer than half of the total acres in Oregon considered at high risk of wildfire.

The cost estimate didnt include maintenance treatments of prescribed fire, which the council acknowledged are essential for maintaining risk reduction over time.

About an hour east of Eugene in a patchwork of heavily managed public and private timberland, with hundreds of acres of clear-cutting and thinning in every direction, the community of Blue River was completely leveled by Septembers 173,000-acre Holiday Farm Fire.

Picking through the burned husks of buildings and cars, researcher Chris Dunn pointed to a nearby hillside that had been logged before the fire.

That kind of management clearly didnt provide community protection, said Dunn, who spent eight years as a wildland firefighter. He now studies fire behavior and risk for Oregon State University and the Forest Service.

OSU wildfire scientists Meg Krawchuk (left) and Chris Dunn (right) examine the damage done by the Holiday Farm Fire to private timberland.

Jes Burns / OPB

In 2018, Dunn co-authored a study with Humboldt State Universitys Harold Zald that found the 2013 Douglas Complex Fire in southern Oregon burned 30% more severely on private industrial timber plantations than on federal forestlands.

Dunn said the research wasnt intended to target the timber industry. It was meant to explain why the fire burned in a particular pattern. He thought perhaps industry leaders might use the study to push for better fire protection funding for their lands, which provide societys wood supply and could be susceptible to burning.

The findings challenged a report by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, a tax-funded forest education agency overseen by timber companies. The institutes report had pointed to the same fire to caution that unlogged public lands contributed to damage on private lands.

While the study is not receiving attention, enviros are using it, and it is out there as a matter of record, then-director Paul Barnum wrote to staff in 2018 in an email obtained by The Oregonian/Oregonlive, OPB and ProPublica. Without someone challenging the study, those accessing it in the future may assume its legit.

Barnum declined to answer specific questions about the study by Dunn and Zald. He said his emails were not relevant to this years fires.

The institute drafted a guest opinion refuting the study and sought input from industry groups before submitting it to a local newspaper.

From beginning to end I would keep the focus on these two specific researchers and their BS study, advised Nick Smith, a lobbyist for the national timber group American Forest Resources Council.

In response to emailed questions, Smith said he took issue with the researchers' broad policy conclusions and thought the study didnt contribute much to the protection of forest values or communities.

The institutes opinion piece ran nearly two months after the study was published, under the heading Replanted forests dont increase intensity of wildfire.

Dunn said no one from the industry reached out to him before criticizing his findings.

Why wouldnt someone just email me and ask me about it and talk, Dunn said. Its like creating a false perception of me being against them or them being against me, and thats completely incorrect.

Days after the September fires wreaked havoc in Oregon communities, Congress had a hearing on a comprehensive wildfire bill.

In the Senate, Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California and Republican Steve Daines of Montana introduced a wildfire bill focused primarily on expanding logging. The bill, which also includes prescribed burning and funding for home construction, would provide additional exemptions on environmental and legal reviews for logging to help mitigate wildfire.

Logging didnt help Drevos community of Gates. Five of the nine houses on his street survived because they were built to be fire resistant or their owners doused them with sprinklers during the blaze. Drevo, who didnt learn he could fortify his home until it burned down, said politicians should focus on making communities more fire-resistant.

You look at what happened in my little microcosm, Drevo said, and the fact that there was an area that was heavily logged, and it was a huge inferno that helped add to the destruction of our community.

Related: Santiam Canyon firestorm survivors return to survey the damage

Late last year, Sen. Kamala Harris, a California Democrat and her partys nominee for vice president, sponsored a bill to create a $1 billion grant program for making homes more resistant to wildfires. Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden co-sponsored the bill in September. He also filed a separate bill seeking a $300 million federal investment in the use of prescribed fire.

Neither bill has received a hearing.

Jes Burns of OPB and Rob Davis of The Oregonian/OregonLive contributed reporting.

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With the presidential election looming, Akron Beacon Journal reporter Craig Webb heads to his hometown of Conneaut, Ohio, to reminisce and take the political pulse of this recovering Rust Belt town. Akron Beacon Journal

Home, in which journalists from the USA TODAY Ohio network return to the communities where they grew up to share firsthand how the contentious 2020 election is playing out in various corners of this battleground state.

Dave Huser, trustee of the Mt. Healthy Historical Society, speaks about the history of the town at the Historical Society museum in Mt. Healthy, Ohio, on Friday, Oct. 9, 2020.(Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

Today, nonprofit organizations supply food to the residents of Clovernook Apartments, the new name of my old community, with buildings that are not properly maintained. Mount Healthians I talked to confirm there is criminal activity, and I was stopped and questioned by a security guard on patrol during my visit.

The area doesnt exactly fit the charming and quiet labels people toss around about Mount Healthy, a Democratic territory in the southwestern part of Ohios Trump country. The oft-told story is that the city came up with its name because residents survived the cholera epidemic in the mid-1800s. Prior to that, it was called Mount Pleasant. (Seriously.)

Its a fitting moniker because Mount Healthians will say everyone gets along and no one argues over politics. But there is a deeper layer of neglect and need the small city is trying to address.

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Mount Healthy in the Cincinnati area is grappling with the inequities in its own community as makes a choice between Joe Biden and Donald Trump Cincinnati Enquirer

Cook Park, Canton Ohio(Photo: Charita M. Goshay, Canton Repository)

Founded in 1892, Crystal Park's residents in the 1960s were a hodgepodge of Hungarians, Greeks, Romanians, a sprinkling of Italians and Portuguese, whites from West Virginiaand Blacks whose families took part in the Great Migration.

Crystal Park also is a perfect illustration of what happened to manyAmerican cities, which means it has its ghosts.

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A horse is hooked up to a flatbed wagon at the Byler's Farm in Gallia County on Oct. 21, 2020. (Photo: Albert Cesare / The Enquirer)

After spending a day going up and down those roads talking to Amish families, I get why they like Trump.

Many of them are small business owners who believe they've reaped the benefits of Trump's economic policies. If you're only seeing Trump through that prism, it's easy to understand the support.

These are Old Order Amish in Gallia County, the most conservative group in the faith. They are humble, hard-working people who grow their own food, make their own clothes and raise multiple children.

They don't drive cars. They shun technology. Therefore, they don't experience all the vitriol, angst and anger on the networks and social media about Trump and this election. They couldn't care less about Trump's tweets.

And perhaps the Amish are better for it as the rest of us have a hard time escaping the Facebook squabbles and screaming pundits this election cycle.

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Jim Potter points to a photo for himself and his first wife Judy on their wedding day in 1961 on a wall of family photos in his home he shares with his second wife on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020 in Bay Village. Potter tells how his father who was a Democrat switched party affiliation when FDR went for his third term in 1940.(Photo: Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal)

My sisters and I affectionately refer to Bay as the bubble. But in presidential politics, there has been a shift. In recent years Democrats have made inroads in Bay much like in suburbs across the nation.

In 2016, Bay flipped from red to blue. Democratic nominee Hilary Clinton won with 53% of the vote, 10 percentage points over Republican Donald Trump. Four years earlier, GOP nominee Mitt Romney won by 8 percentage points over Democrat Barack Obama.

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Cars travel down Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Glenway Avenue travels all through the west side of Cincinnati.(Photo: Hannah Ruhoff)

Most of the West Side just outside Cincinnati's city limits is still President Donald Trump country, but Joe Biden could get more votes here than past Democrats.

In the West Side neighborhoods of Price Hill, Westwood and South Fairmount, all in Cincinnati's city limits, Hillary Clinton easily won in 2016 beating Trump 71% to 23%.

But once you get to the suburban hillsides and villages of Green Township, Cheviot, Delhi and the more rural communities of Cleves, Harrison and Whitewater Townships, Trump dominated four years ago, 65% to 28%.

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Many of the storefronts at the Austintown Plaza are now vacant, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, in Austintown, Ohio. [Jeff Lange/Beacon Journal](Photo: Jeff Lange, Akron Beacon Journal)

Suburban Youngstown isthe centerpiece of the deep-blue Mahoning Valley that Democrats have reliably controlled for decades.

In 2016,though, something changed. President Donald Trumpcarriedthe Mahoning Valleyon his way to an 8.1percentage point win in Ohio.It was the first time a Republican carried the Valley since 1972, when President Richard Nixon won 86 of Ohios 88 counties in his national landslide.

Inthe combinedMahoning and Trumbull counties where former President Barack Obama, a Democrat, won with more than 60% of the vote, Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton.

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Joe Orlando, the retired owner of Orlando Brothers Golden Dawn grocery store grabs a ham loaf mix form the meat cooler at the store on Thursday Sept. 17, 2020 in Conneaut. The ham and pork mixture is made at the store.(Photo: Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal)

Aside from the infamous "Proud Republican" bumper sticker incident, my parents never publicly declared their politics. However, many neighbors proudly bled blue.

That's certainly not the case in Conneaut now.

The sea of Democratic signs of my youth are now a patchwork of political leanings, with signs and flags for both Joe Biden and Donald Trump.

I know signs can't vote, but it seems that Trump may have an edge, at least in this small corner of the political landscape.

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Jeromesville signs mark the village limits on the north on Ohio Route 89. In the background is a school built in 1929.(Photo: Tom E. Puskar/Times-Gazette.com)

In 2016, Trump triumphed among Jeromesvilles 230 residents who went to the polls by 40 percentage points, 67% to 27%, over Hillary Clinton.

The runaway was even bigger in surrounding rural areas, leading to a Trump blowout, 74% to 19%, in the village and three adjoining townships combined.

It was a microcosm of how well Trump performed in rural Ohio four years ago, from the 71% he won in eastern Ohios Carroll County to the stunning 81% he took in Mercer County on the states western border.

Can he do it again?

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It all happened so fast.

Jamie Carlson was enjoying a leisurely afternoon Oct. 13 with her 2-year-old grandson at the Conifer Lawn in the western part of the San Francisco Botanical Garden at Golden Gate Park.

Carlson spread a blanket on a sloping grassy hill under a tree, and as she and her grandson have done on many days, they enjoyed a picnic.

When it was time to leave, she put her grandson in the grass and folded up the blanket. At this point, the food was already packed up.

Carlson walked about 8 to 10 feet to the stroller to pack up when, from out of nowhere, a coyote with its mouth open and teeth bared charged down the hill straight toward the child.

The animal's mouth was within inches of her grandson, Carlson said, when she swooped in and grabbed him, screaming as loud as she could to scare it away.

"The animal didn't scare but instead started moving toward a baby sitting nearby with his mother," said the San Francisco native and resident.

The report collected by officials on the incident reveals that Carlson said the coyote was moving with intent and aiming for her grandson's neck. Carlson also said when she ran toward her grandson, he fell over and this saved him from being physically attacked.

In response to the incident, San Francisco Recreation and Parks closed the Conifer Lawn, installed new signs warning visitors of coyote activity and initiated a protocol for greeters at the garden entrance to alert visitors.

"While Animal Care and Control is handling the investigation and has alerted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Recreation and Park Department remains vigilant and is conducting outreach and monitoring of coyote activities and behavior," Recreation and Parks spokesperson Tamara Aparton wrote in a statement. "No bold coyote behavior has been reported to Rec and Park or the Botanical Garden since the incident. We will continue to work with our colleagues at Animal Care and Control to monitor, adapt and respond to the situation."

Carlson feels the city needs to do more. Signs in the park describe coyotes as generally afraid of humans, but she said the coyote that approached her grandchild was fearless of humans. She has heard from two friends who visited the garden since the incident that they weren't warned of coyotes at the entrance.

"Had I known there was any abnormal animal behavior, I wouldnt have walked away to the stroller," she said. "I feel really strongly that we need to do more to protect people in the garden. In the garden, you feel a sense of security that you should not feel. If we were told there has been abnormal animal behavior, we could all help each other out."

The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department roped off the Conifer Lawn in the San Francisco Botanical Garden after a coyote came within inches of a child on Oct. 13, 2020.

Coyote sightings are common in San Francisco, where the animals have colonized the urban landscape, building dens and raising young in pockets of vegetation tucked among neighborhoods. A Nextdoor neighborhood group is filled with stories of coyotes killing backyard cats, and Instagram is flooded with images of coyotes sauntering S.F. streets. Even though the animals are generally nocturnal, sightings often occur in broad daylight.

Earlier this month, Bay Area resident Zaki Lisha reported picnicking in the Botanical Garden around a crowd of people when a coyote dropped by "as if it owned the place."

"Young families scattered at its sight, protecting their young ones," Lisha said.

Lisha snapped a photo (see below) and it shows the animal closely passing by humans in broad daylight.

With all the talk and photos of coyote activity, it may seem the animals have suddenly descended on San Francisco in recent years, but actually they are native to California and are repopulating an area where they lived in abundance until the mid-1900s.

Police officers killed coyotes that crossed the Golden Gate Bridge out of the city for many years, and when this practice stopped, coyotes began building dens around the city in the early 2000s. Nobody knows exactly how many coyotes live in the city, but Amy Corso, field services supervisor for San Francisco Animal Care and Control, estimates the number is below 100.

"It depends on the time of the year," Corso said. "A lot of pups are killed by cars in spring and fall, and numbers go back down."

Coyote activity increases and sightings become more common in spring and summer, when they're raising young and searching for food, but Corso has noticed a consistent increase in sightings during the pandemic.

"I think people are home more and people are walking their dogs more often," she said. "We went through that period when we were pretty locked down, and people weren't venturing out. At that point, wildlife came out more. It was more comfortable for them to do so with the lockdown. This is what I think. This isn't scientific fact."

While the number of conflicts between humans and coyotes in the city is unknown, Corso shared for aprevious SFGATE article that Animal Care and Control has received more reports in recent years.

"Were getting more reports of people being uncomfortable with the amount of sightings, seeing them walking by so close to them." Corso said there have also been reports of coyotes killing small pets left in the backyard, and she encourages residents to not leave cats and small dogs unattended outdoors, especially at night.

Corso said she has never heard of a coyote acting aggressively toward a child in San Francisco or biting either a child or adult, but incidents have occurred outside the city.A 5-year-old girl was hospitalized after a coyote bit her in Dublin Hills Regional Park in April. A coyote bit a woman on Tennessee Beach in the Marin Headlands in September.

A coyote sighting in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in broad daylight, October 2020.

Stanley Gehrt, a coyote researcher and wildlife ecologist who teaches at Ohio State University, has studied coyotes living in Chicago for years and often hears from city officials when aggression occurs in urban environments across the country.

"I do get a lot of inquiries from San Francisco folks, both agency folks and the general public," he said. "That has been going on for over a decade."

Gehrt has observed a similar pattern unfold in all cities with coyotes whether Washington, D.C., Cleveland or Los Angeles where a small number become more bold than others.

"Its still a very rare event for a coyote to bite a person," he said. "Its still a big step for them to take to go from just bold to actually biting someone. You dont want to ignore the situation. People need to be aware so they can take precautions."

He said the reason coyotes become problematic and lose their fear of humans is almost always due to them being fed human food, and Corso said she knows this occurs in San Francisco.

"We really get into problems when that happens," Corso said. "Years ago, someone was busted for hand-feeding a coyote. That hand is now seen as a food source."

While Corso specifically knows of some individuals who intentionally feed coyotes from their backyards or at areas frequented by the animals, she said most of the feeding is likely unintentional.

Pet food left outdoors and trash cans are two sources of food for the animals. She said the city encourages people to secure lids on cans left outside and to bring pet food inside when animals are done eating. Animal Care and Control can help residents who like to feed feral cats build special platforms for food that the cats, and not the coyotes, can reach.

Another issue is overgrowth in backyards where coyotes hunt for rodents.

"We have seen coyotes create a den in someones yard that has a lot of this overgrowth," Corso said. "Its really important for residents to keep those yards tidy, not allow it to be harborage for coyotes."

As these animals have made themselves at home in the city, it's important for residents to know what to do when they encounter a bold coyote.

"Be confident in your actions: Clap, yell, look it in the eye and go on," she said.

Gehrt echoed the importance of hazing coyotes.

"Usually, its making a loud noise and taking a step or two in their direction," he said. "You may have to wave your arms. You may even throw something in their direction. If you do something like that and the animal isnt afraid of you and perhaps stands its ground and may exhibit aggressive behavior, then you need to report that to officials."

He added, "Once you have animals exhibiting bold behavior you have to do some sort of reaction, that might involve hazing, it might be opportunistic hazing or programmatic hazing, looking for opportunities to haze the animals, sometimes that works, sometimes its not effective. If the animals are becoming more of a threat to the health and safety of people then at some point they have to be removed."

A coyote looks over the water during a visit to a mostly deserted Kirby Cove on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Photographer Scott Oller captured the moment on April 9, 2020.

Robert Hughes of Pacifica attempted to haze the coyote that nearly attacked the child at Golden Gate Park earlier this month. He didn't see the animal running after the child, but he saw Carlson clutching her grandson and running away from it.

"This was an extremely large coyote," Hughes said. "I live in Pacifica and frequently see coyotes in my backyard. Im not surprised by coyotes. This was a very big coyote. I made a lot of noise. I waved my hands. I yelled. That coyote was not intimidated at all. That was an extremely bold coyote. Finally, it left. It didnt run away. It left as if it were thinking, 'Oh, youre going to continue with that. I guess I'll go.'"

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In a giant victory for liberals of a certain age Jon Stewart is returning to television via Apple TV+, hosting an original current affairs series that will span multiple seasons made up of hour-long episodes. Said episodes will explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation and [Stewarts] advocacy work, according to a news release from the platform earlier this week.

And while Stewarts return to the airwaves might feel to some like a return to pre-Trump normalcy the hosts tenure at Comedy Centrals The Daily Show ran from January 1999 until August 2015 at the same time it feels like a potential misstep disguised as a safe bet, a blunder that the nearly year-old streamer seems particularly prone to.

But first, the HBO of it all.

If the headlines trumpeting Stewarts return to television feels familiar, theres a good reason for it, namely that there have been similar headlines bouncing around for the last five years, but connected to HBO and not Apple TV+. In November 2015 it was announced that Stewart had signed a four-year digital development deal with HBO for their streaming services, including HBO NOW, HBO Go, and others. First on the slate was a short-form animated parody of a cable news channel that was originally scheduled to premiere in fall 2016, then in the first quarter of 2017, before ultimately being axed in May 2017 having never aired an episode.

But two months later, things were back on track with Stewart, as HBO announced that he would be producing his first stand-up special since 1996 for the network. Then it was never mentioned again.

Needless to say, Apple TV+s announcement has to be bittersweet for the cable giant who was never able to make anything happen while they had Stewart under contract. That or theyre certain this new project will never see the light of day because, well, hindsight.

That said, this new endeavor feels like more evidence that the streamer would really love to be mid-2000s HBO, all prestige drama and upper echelon conversation pieces. Its not TV. Its not HBO. Its Apple TV+. Maybe thats why the platform was so quick to make a deal with former HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler at the beginning of the year after the exec exited WarnerMedia in February 2019.

Plepler, perhaps unsurprisingly, will serve as an executive producer for Stewarts new show.

Setting aside whether or not the series is good for Apple TV+ or bad for HBO, let us now focus on whether or not its good or bad forAmerica. Or audiences, whatever.

There is no arguing that Stewart revolutionized how younger generations consumed both news and media, mastering both political theater and the skewering of journalistic failures and, maybe most importantly, cultivating a team of talent that was more than willing and able to further the craft after his retirement.

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Trevor Noah, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver all bring different points of view to the table for their late-night news programs so did Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac before being cancelled before their time, but thats a different rant. Stephen Colbert has now stepped into the elder statesman role formerly inhabited by Stewart, taking his talents to network television and making The Daily Shows whole thing mainstream and easily consumable for our parents.

If, and or when, Jon Stewart returns to TV he needs to bring with him a different insight into the world than he used to offer. Weve moved on. Weve lived through Trump (so far)(also, barely). We dont need another older white guy named Jimmy (or John) cracking wise about how screwed up things are. We have plenty already. Because were now living in an age where the president tells such shameless, blatant lies on such a regular basis that regular news coverage requires chyrons that would have been right at home on the Bush-era Daily Show.

This is not the same media landscape Stewart left in 2015. This is the thunderdome. Give us a narrative we havent been fed a thousand times before or get out of the way.

(Also, this unnamed, unscheduled show sounds like,a lot, like Last Week Tonight except an hour long so maybe address that in the meantime.)

For more on the return of Jon Stewart, check out this weeks episode of IndieWires TV podcast Millions of Screens as hosts Deputy TV Editor Ben Travers, Creative Producer Leo Garcia, and TV Awards Editor Libby Hill, further discuss the return of the prodigal son of late-night news shows.

Plus, we get into the nitty gritty of the spooky season and dig into what our favorite scary shows to consume are yes, were talking Hannibal again and what TV format seems to support horror storytelling best. In keeping with ongoing social distancing mandates, this weeks episode was again recorded from the comfort of everyones respective Los Angeles-area apartments and were again offering viewers a video version of the podcast, as embedded above.

Millions of Screens is available onAnchor,Apple Podcasts,Breaker,Google Podcasts,Spotify, andStitcher. You can subscribehereor viaRSS. Share yourfeedback with the crewon Twitter or sound off in the comments. Review the show oniTunesand be sure to let us know if youd like to hear the gang address specific issues in upcoming editions of Millions of Screens. Check out the rest of IndieWirespodcastsoniTunes right here.

This episode of Millions of Screens was produced by Leonardo Adrian Garcia.

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