Skip to content

Bill Donahue is a writer for Outside, Harper’s, Wired, The New York Times Magazine, and more…

Bill Donahue · Writer
  • About
  • Stories
  • Unbound
  • Up The Creek

Stories  Pacific Northwest

  • Adventure
  • Africa
  • Arts and Letters
  • Asia
  • Backpacker
  • Bicycling
  • Bloomberg Businessweek
  • Business
  • Canada
  • Cultural Survival
  • Environment
  • Essays
  • Family
  • Geopolitics
  • Gilmanton
  • Harper’s
  • History
  • Latin America
  • New England
  • Outside
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Politics
  • Profiles
  • Religion
  • Runner’s World
  • Sports
  • The Atavist
  • The Atlantic
  • The New York Times Magazine
  • The Washington Post Magazine
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
June 20, 2013October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Wheat Noir

When a few stalks of rogue, genetically modified wheat sprouted on an Oregon farm, the US Department of Agriculture would not disclose the whereabouts of the wheat. Monsanto, which engineered the seeds, was likewise keeping mum. So I began searching. Photo by Natalie Behring.

Bloomberg Businessweek
Edited by Brad Weiners.

Read this story »…

Continue reading
September 27, 2012October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

America’s Best Bike City

Why Portland is number one.

Bicycling
Edited by Dave Howard.
Photograph by Charles Gullung.

Read this story »…

Continue reading
October 1, 2005October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Craig Rosebraugh’s War

For years, Craig Rosebraugh was the spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front, which burns down SUV dealerships and ski lifts in the name of eco-defense. When he changed jobs and opened a blue chip vegan restaurant, his inner anarchist never stopped working overtime.

Inc.
Edited by Dan Ferrara.

Read this story »…

Continue reading
September 8, 2003October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Black Copters over Oregon

Did George W. Bush’s henchmen light a forest fire in Oregon in order to sell Bush’s “Healthy Forest Initiative”? An investigation.

Salon
Edited by Ed Lempinen.

Read this story »…

Continue reading
May 1, 2001October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

The Backyard Expedition

When my daughter was almost six, I thought it would be a good idea to take her kayaking down Oregon’s Tualatin River. 

National Geographic Adventure
Edited by Mark Jannot. Photo by Brown W. Cannon III.


Read this story »…

Continue reading
March 1, 2000October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Pilgrim at Johnson Creek

I didn’t really know my hardscrabble Portland neighborhood until I floated the local creek in a $49.95 inflatable raft. 

DoubleTake
Edited by Toby Lester.

Read this story »…

Continue reading
March 1, 1998October 9, 2017 by Bill Donahue

Drive Thru Church

Pray Here Ministries’ Rick Schneberger offers absolution in a gravel parking lot on the strip mall fringes of Portland. 

DoubleTake
Edited by Rob Odom. Illustration by Charles Anderson. 

Read this story »…

Continue reading
Page 2 of 2‹12

Contact

  [email protected]
  Subscribe
  @billdonahue13


© Bill Donahue. All rights reserved.

Site photography:
Cycling in the hills of New Hampshire, by Hector Emanuel. Cross country skiing in the Alaskan Arctic, by Otso Könönen. Interviewing Syrian refugees in Idomeni, Greece, by Julius Motal. Among the Maasai in Kenya, by Georgina Goodwin. At the desk, by Julie Keefe. Outside the barn, by Michele Olvera. Scrambling across Thompson Peak boulder field, by Justin Garwood.

Website by curio museum design.

No Fields Found.