Benjamin Alva Polley
@be-jammin-polley.bsky.social
Freelance Writer: With words in Rolling Sone, Esquire, Field & Stream, The Guardian, Men’s Journal, Popular Science, Outside and Sierra. See more here www.benjaminpolley.com/stories
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I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I researched their magazine because I still wasn’t that familiar w/it. The magazine started n Portland, Or., + then moved 2 Copenhagen. It’s translated n2 4 languages. They’ve over 170k subscribers +1.9 million followers on Insta. I had no idea. Not 2shabby.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
Here’s my first column on lake ice.
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@kinfolk magazine
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@kinfolk magazine
@kinfolk magazine
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
@kinfolk magazine
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
About 6 months ago, I received an email from the editor of Kinfolk magazine in Copenhagen, asking if I would write a column called “Field Notes” for their quarterly issue for the following year.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
Last night, I got home+ saw the lovely issue arrived.
Here is my first 350-word column on lake ice.
As Henry Beston observed in “The Outermost House” in 1928, “Wildlife are beings that live in a world far older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses…
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Dispatches from the Wild: Montana’s record high wolf quota | Explore Big Sky
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Years ago, I hiked with two friends in a remote area of Glacier National Park during early November. Western larch trees blazed with the color of butterscotch, th...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As Henry Beston observed in “The Outermost House” in 1928, “Wildlife are beings that live in a world far older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses…
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
www.explorebigsky.com/dispatches-f...
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Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
This summer I was fortunate to go on assignment for the WWF to South Dakota to write about indigenous-led bison restoration projects.
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Managing North America’s largest Native-owned bison herd | Stories | WWF
Chance “Bud” Colombe manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range, home to over 1,000 bison—the largest Native-owned bison herd in the world, operating under the belief that when the grasslands and bison thrive, so do the people.
www.worldwildlife.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
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Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
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Share this with the person standing next to you in line at the food pantry.
a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Share this with the person standing next to you in line at the food pantry.
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.
October 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
This summer I was fortunate to go on assignment for the WWF to South Dakota to write about indigenous-led bison restoration projects.
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Managing North America’s largest Native-owned bison herd | Stories | WWF
Chance “Bud” Colombe manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range, home to over 1,000 bison—the largest Native-owned bison herd in the world, operating under the belief that when the grasslands and bison thrive, so do the people.
www.worldwildlife.org
October 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!
This summer I was fortunate to go on assignment for the WWF to South Dakota to write about indigenous-led bison restoration projects.
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
Managing North America’s largest Native-owned bison herd | Stories | WWF
Chance “Bud” Colombe manages the Wolakota Buffalo Range, home to over 1,000 bison—the largest Native-owned bison herd in the world, operating under the belief that when the grasslands and bison thrive, so do the people.
www.worldwildlife.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This summer I was fortunate to go on assignment for the WWF to South Dakota to write about indigenous-led bison restoration projects.
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
This is the first of three stories.
www.worldwildlife.org/stories/mana...
Source: World Wildlife Fund
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As a retired journalism professor, I believe every newsroom in America must now develop Civil War Protocols: how it will conduct the profession of journalism when Donald Trump declares martial law and systematically ends our democracy. If your newsroom isn't prepared for this, it's rank malpractice.
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
October 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money.
Let that sink in
Let that sink in
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When @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social and I, two adventurers, were planning our honeymoon, it made sense that it should be the most epic adventure we’d undertaken to date. No feather beds and cocktails on beaches for us, we thought.
And then we almost died.
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And then we almost died.
cassidyr.substack.com/p/our-wilder...
Our Wilderness Honeymoon Almost Killed Us. Literally.
Why it's a good thing to face mortality with your significant other.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
When @be-jammin-polley.bsky.social and I, two adventurers, were planning our honeymoon, it made sense that it should be the most epic adventure we’d undertaken to date. No feather beds and cocktails on beaches for us, we thought.
And then we almost died.
cassidyr.substack.com/p/our-wilder...
And then we almost died.
cassidyr.substack.com/p/our-wilder...
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A recent national study concluded that floods previously considered to be hundred-year events have become, on average, 62-year events, as a result of human-caused climate change.
In an Age of Climate Change, How Do We Cope with Floods?
The deaths in the Texas Hill Country are a tragic testament to the force of a raging river. Flood-stricken Vermont has a radical plan to counter the threat it faces.
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July 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A recent national study concluded that floods previously considered to be hundred-year events have become, on average, 62-year events, as a result of human-caused climate change.
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The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.
July 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The EPA is preparing a proposal that would revoke a critical 2009 legal determination stating that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health. That finding has been the backbone of U.S. climate regulations for over a decade.
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.