Christopher Ketcham

Christopher Ketcham is an American journalist.

In 2019, Ketcham published the book This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West. The book critiques the management of the 450 million acres of public lands in the United States, claiming that land is being systematically destroyed by commercial exploitation and government complicity.[1][2][3][4][5]

In 2020, Ketcham published the book Flowers and Honeybees: A Study of Morality In Nature.[6]

Awards and honors

In 2002, Ketcham was a Livingston Awards finalist for his coverage of the 9/11 attacks in New York for Salon.com.[7]

Ketcham's book This Land was a finalist in the natural history literature category in the 2019 National Outdoor Book Awards.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Can the American West be Saved? (Published 2019)". The New York Times. 15 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Review: The American West is dying. Christopher Ketcham's 'This Land' is a rallying cry to save it". Los Angeles Times. 26 July 2019.
  3. ^ Tobias, Jimmy (July 12, 2019). "'This Land' Is the 'Desert Solitaire' of Our Time".
  4. ^ "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption Are Ruining the American West by Christopher Ketcham". Publishers Weekly.
  5. ^ "THIS LAND | Kirkus Reviews" – via Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^ "Morality in Nature: What Honeybees and Flowers Can Tell Us about its Origin".
  7. ^ https://www.typeinvestigations.org/reporter/christopherketcham/
  8. ^ "2019 Winners of the National Outdoor Book Awards". www.noba-web.org.

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