"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom." Theodore Roosevelt Harry S. Yount: the ‘father of park rangers’. Yellowstone: The river: 671-692? miles of undammed water (though there are 6 diversion dams that direct water into canals for irrigation) and …
Month: August 2016
Birthday Wishes
You've probably heard that this summer marks the hundredth birthday of the U.S. National Parks. You've seen commemorative books, read about celebrities' favorite park picks, and followed social media campaigns urging you to "Find Your Park." But they've spun it wrong, or at least misleadingly. This is not the parks' anniversary year; the earliest …
Writing the Wild Turns One!
A year ago last August Hilary, Julianne, and I began Writing the Wild. A year at the start seems like a long time. At the end, though, after the earth has made another revolution around the sun, and we’ve reveled in the colors of autumn, skied our way through winter, sloshed around in spring's never-ending puddles, …
Living in the Present
"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." Loren Eiseley Yuval Noah Harari, the author of ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’, has said there is evidence that human brains are shrinking over large expanses of time because we need to remember less in order to survive. We look forward and …
Writing the Wild 