We just can't keep Tommy Hough away from Seattle. In fact, we just can't keep Tommy Hough away...he keeps figuring out ways to get into the building even though we keep changing the locks. Back in Seattle after several years in Southern California handling mornings and middays at San Diego's famous FM 94/9, Tommy Hough returns to 107.7 The End's weekend line-up with a pair of headphones, a handful of CDs, and...those hiking boots?  Does he ever take them off?  Apparently not, since Tommy lives for outdoor treks in the wild Pacific Northwest, and continues to plot new ways to increase good environmental stewardship and political awareness through his radio work and extracurricular activities.

Having penned pieces for the Seattle Times, Tablet, and Krown, Tommy continues to leave a paper trail of politics, music, and travel in his wake, and as an avid outdoorsman he encourages everyone to lace up and explore the Pacific Northwest's Great Outdoors and do their part to preserve it.  Tommy's goals include the passage of a second Washington Wilderness Act and the re-instatement of the so-called "Roadless Rule" (repealed by the Bush administration in early 2001), as well as increasing awareness of runaway, arrogant corporate giants and lobbying firms who continue to control our lives through the media, and the politicians who enable them.

Tommy currently lives in Bellevue, though Bellevue denies this. Special thanks to Senator Maria Cantwell for quoting one of Tommy's Seattle Times environmental pieces on the floor of the U.S. Senate during the Healthy Forests debate in September 2002, and for her on-going opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Special thanks to Derek Plank for the photo.

Websites You Should Visit:
The Mountaineers - The preeminent outdoor and conservation organization in Washington state:
http://mountaineers.org

The Wilderness Society - Busting their tail in Washington D.C. and around the country securing America's wild heritage:
http://wilderness.org

The Sierra Club - Founded by John Muir in 1892, there's a chapter in every corner of the nation:
http://cascade.sierraclub.org

Washington Trails Association (WTA) - Co-founded by the late Ira Spring, the WTA maintains and builds trails and is the voice for hikers in Washington state.
http://wta.org

National Forest Protection Alliance (NFPA) - Dedicated folks in Montana trying to save old growth in our National Forests from the saw.
http://forestadvocate.org

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Making sure your Constitutionally-guaranteed liberties are protected, no matter how much Washington D.C. tries to chip away at them:
http://www.aclu.com

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Keeping tabs on earthquakes, volcanoes, and earth science in general:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/index.php

Media Matters - Deliberate misinformation and politically-charged lies pass as TV news these days, but Media Matters calls the culprits out:
http://mediamatters.org

FM 94/9 - Tommy's friends and former colleagues in San Diego, for whom he still does "Brunch With Bob and Friends" Sunday mornings:
http://fm949sd.com

National Park Service (NPS) - Our National Parks are the envy of the world...so why is the administration trying to sell them off to the highest bidder? Hug one of your criminally underfunded National Parks today:
http://www.nps.gov

Washington State Parks - Parking fees are gone! From Birch Bay to Deception Pass to Wallace Falls to Dash Point, parking at Washington State Parks is free (again) at last:
http://parks.wa.gov

Band of Brothers - Dedicated to electing Afghan and Iraq War veterans to Congress:
http://www.bandofbrothers2006.org

12 Great Movies You May Not Have Seen, But Should:

1. Point Blank (with Lee Marvin, directed by John Boorman), 1967
2. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (with James Coburn, directed by Sam Peckinpah), 1973
3. Paths of Glory (with Kirk Douglas, directed by Stanley Kubrick), 1957
4. Ed Wood (with Johnny Depp, directed by Tim Burton), 1994
5. The Fog of War (with Robert McNamara, directed by Errol Morris), 2004
6. High and Low (with Toshiro Mifune, directed by Akira Kurosawa), 1963
7. The Thin Red Line (with Sean Penn, directed by Terence Malick), 1998
8. The Getaway (with Steve McQueen, directed by Sam Peckinpah), 1972
9. The Right Stuff (with Ed Harris, directed by Phil Kauffman), 1983
10. The Conversation (with Gene Hackman, directed by Francis Coppola), 1974
11. Five Easy Pieces (with Jack Nicholson, directed by Bob Rafelson), 1970
12. The Big Lebowski (with Jeff Bridges, directed by the Coen Brothers), 1998

While you're at it, go see "An Inconvenient Truth," and prepare to take a sobering look at what we're doing to our home.

12 Great Albums You May Not Own, But Should:

1. Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Def Jam), 1988
2. The Stooges, Raw Power (Columbia), 1973
3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico (Verve), 1967
4. Tad - Salt Lick (Sub Pop), 1990
5. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange (Matador), 1994
6. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Sire), 1991
7. Bill Hicks - Arizona Bay (Rykodisc), 1997
8. Steve Earle - Train A Comin' (Warner Brothers), 1995
9. Mudhoney - Mudhoney (Sub Pop), 1989
10. Los Amigos Invisibles - Arepa 3000 (Luaka Bop), 2000
11. Mike Ness - Cheating At Solitaire (Time Bomb), 1998
12. The Incredible Moses Leroy - Become the Soft.Lightes (Ultimatum), 2003

Five Books You May Not Have Read, But Should:

1. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
2. Wartime, by Paul Fussell (1989)
3. Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner (1986)
4. The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan (1996)
5. Citizen Soldiers, by Stephen Ambrose (1997)

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