A hike in deep woods
Moving, walking, going. One foot in front, then the other, and before you know it you neither have departed nor arrived, only walking, going.
[Daily post 081 of 260 in my year-long challenge.] ♨
Moving, walking, going. One foot in front, then the other, and before you know it you neither have departed nor arrived, only walking, going.
[Daily post 081 of 260 in my year-long challenge.] ♨
Nathaniel P. Langford and other members of the 1870 Washburn-Doane expedition “Columbused” Yellowstone by “discovering” it as a “park.”
National parks and the entire history of American environmentalism originate in the same traditions that produced much of evangelical Christianity in America.
I composed a song while hitchhiking to Cooke City, standing alone in the vast quiet amidst a sagebrush land empty of the summer crowds.
The “best idea” of creating national parks involved eradicating the previous meanings and uses of these places that had sustained indigenous cultures for centuries.
Horace Albright’s legacy enjoys high esteem, but many of the precedents he set for the National Park Service have contributed to problems that parks now face.
I recently came across my earliest publications, a collection of forgettable poems that made their way into several small literary journals.