Chuck Thompson

CHUCK THOMPSON is the longtime editor of Columbia Insight, an award-winning environmental and outdoor news website based in Hood River, Oregon, just across the Columbia River from Skamania County and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. A former executive producer with CNN.com, deputy editor of Men’s Journal, and Outside magazine contributor, he’s the author The Status Revolution: The Improbable Story of How the Lowbrow Became the Highbrow; the widely reviewed political screed Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession; and the acclaimed travel memoir Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer.