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7:30 in the morning, July 12. The wind is picking up quickly. I put my kayak into the waters of Sedge Bay, Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park. It's iffy but I get out a bit, into smoother waves. It's tough to put on my spray skirt but I get it on while trying to …
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I went into the wilderness smelling like a human. I came out of the wilderness heavy with the sweet and spicy aroma of sagebrush clinging to my clothes and boots. My story often begins with sagebrush. Big Mountain Sagebrush – Aretemisia tridentata. Some say sagebrush smells like the west – like freedom and open space …
I come from Dutch Hill, from a farm in the township of Hume, near the village of Fillmore, in Allegany County. The county is named for the Allegheny River, which flows nowhere close to here, and which barely penetrates this Southern Tier of the western half of what most out-of-staters call "Upstate New York." This part of …
Writing the Wild 