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“Walter Scott and the Matter of Landscape: Ecologies of Violence” in The Bottle Imp Issue 16, 2014.
Essex University’s MA in Wild Writing: Literature and the Environment
Talk at Casper, Wyoming.
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Category Archives: Birds and Animals
Ice Thoughts: 2,
Study in Ice, Rock and Water. Southern Greenland seen from 36000 feet. Photo © Susan Oliver. Like the white ghost of a glacier the mists advance, riding over phalanxes of tamarack, sliding across bog meadows heavy with dew. A single silence … Continue reading
Seeing beyond the Sandhill Cranes: a trip from Eastern Wyoming into Nebraska.
A sense of time lies thick and heavy on such a place . . . . The cranes stand, as it were, upon the sodden pages of their own history. Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949). On … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Birds and Animals, Environment and walking, environmental aesthetics, land ethics, Nature writing, Nebraska, Poetry and Essays, Uncategorized, Wyoming
Tagged ecology, environment, landscape, nature, plants, Sandhill cranes, University of Essex, Vedauwoo, Wildflowers, Wyoming
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City of Trees: Boise, Idaho and an Urban Natural Experience.
White pine in the rain. Boise, April 2014. ‘A large tree on the west side of a residential home can save up to $48 per year in electricity and natural gas use.’ ‘Urban trees remove 581 tons of air pollutants … Continue reading
Sage Grouse Lekking and Canyon Fiction.
Green River at Green River City, where John Wesley Powell’s Grand Canyon expedition was launched. The grey-green sagebrush steppe and yellow and red rock canyons are two of the most contrastive, distinctive, colorful environments of the North American West. Arid … Continue reading
Posted in American West, Birds and Animals, Environment and walking, Fiction
Tagged biodiversity, ecology, endangered bird species, expeditions, Grand Canyon, greater sage grouse, Green River, high prairie, John Vernon (author), John Wesley Powell, Sagebrush steppe, The Last Canyon (novel), University of Wyoming, Wyoming
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