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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.
Talk at UW, Casper.
Tag Archives: Wyoming
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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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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Of Rocks and Hard Places . . .
I was talking with my group of graduate students about John Muir’s essays originally written for newspapers, published in the collection Travels in Alaska (1915). Muir developed a hypothesis during the 1870s revising accounts of how the geological landscape of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment and walking, Poetry and Essays, Trees
Tagged Alaska, geology, hiking, John Muir, plants, trails, Vedauwoo, Wyoming
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Chokecherry Wine and Conferencing. . .
Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Landscape and Environment – Conference at the University of Wyoming. 28th – 29th March UW’s graduate conference on the theme of Searching for Place: Interpretations of the Landscape and Environment took place over the … Continue reading
Cottonwoods and sky: March 2014
Cottonwoods and sky: March 23, 2014 Arrived back in Laramie to azure skies and cottonwoods. I can’t say how much I love those trees, which grow on campus and line many of Laramie’s streets as well as thriving out on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cottonwoods, cutthroat trout, ecology, nature, State emblems, Wyoming
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Susan Oliver, writing from . . . 