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      by Kim Heacox

      May 20, 2020
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    • Aerial view of creek, woods, and wetlands

      Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
      Living on Osprey Time: Journaling
      by David Gessner

      April 30, 2020
    • Painting of a blue jay

      Old Roads, New Stories:
      Why We Have Blue Jays
      by Rob Carney

      April 28, 2020
    • Vintage desk and typewriter

      Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
      On Routine
      by David Gessner

      April 23, 2020
    • Wolf howling and full moon

      Letter to America
      by Deborah Thompson

      April 22, 2020
      2
    • Osprey

      Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
      Learn the One Thing
      by David Gessner

      April 16, 2020
    • Walkway over the dunes at a beach

      Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
      What Is My Authentic Self?
      by David Gessner

      April 9, 2020
      1
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    • Letter to America
      by Lois P. Jones

      May 25, 2020
      Letter to America, Poetry
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    • Cooper's hawk

      One Poem
      by Elizabeth Jacobson

      May 18, 2020
      1

    • Letter to America
      by Traci Brimhall

      May 15, 2020
      1
    • Fountain of the Fallen Angel in Retiro Park

      Two Poems
      by Sharon Dolin

      May 13, 2020

    • One Poem
      by Beth Paulson

      May 8, 2020
      1

    • Letter to America
      by Alison Hawthorne Deming

      May 4, 2020
    • Sunrise over the Snake River

      Two Poems
      by Dennis Held

      May 1, 2020
  • Nonfiction
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    • Slash pine needles

      Slashed
      by Andrew Furman

      May 11, 2020
      Nonfiction, To Know a Place
      1
    Recent

    • Back to the Garden
      Prose, Photos + Videos
      by Gretchen VanWormer

      May 6, 2020

    • The Wandering Glider (Pantela flavescens)
      by Brian Turner

      April 27, 2020
      1
    • Maple syrup buckets in snowy woods

      Maple Syrup Season
      by Kristen Munson

      April 13, 2020
    • Patio with table and chairs

      Death in the Neighborhood
      by Désirée Zamorano

      April 3, 2020
      3

    • Groves of Old Knowing
      by Julian Hoffman

      March 27, 2020
    • Afternoon light on empty fitness center

      Pizza Night on Planet Fitness
      by John T. Price

      March 23, 2020
      1
  • Fiction
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    • Paradise Earth: A Novel Excerpt
      by Amy Barker

      May 22, 2020
      Fiction
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    • Feathers
      by Mateusz Tokarski

      April 29, 2020

    • The Mermaid
      by Kelly K. Ferguson

      March 15, 2020
    • Night of the Day of the Dead

      The Night of the Day of the Dead
      by Michael McGuire

      February 13, 2020
    • North Carolina coast with dunes

      Whale Watcher
      by John Colman Wood

      February 4, 2020
    • Louisiana coast at sunset

      Out Here, Like This
      by Weldon Ryckman

      January 31, 2020
    • Until the Seas Rise, by Anita Felicelli

      Until the Seas Rise
      by Anita Felicelli

      November 6, 2019
  • Interviews
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    • Ocean waves

      Not Otherwise Specified:
      An Interview with Aby Kaupang
      and Matthew Cooperman

      April 19, 2020
      Interviews
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    • Phoenix, Arizona

      Cross Country:
      Julie Swarstad Johnson and
      Patricia Colleen Murphy in Conversation

      March 12, 2020
    • Women Writers in the Wild: Lilace Mellin Guignard and Suzanne Roberts in Conversation

      Women Writers in the Wild:
      Lilace Mellin Guignard and
      Suzanne Roberts in Conversation

      December 13, 2019
      2
    • A Reservoir for Our Spirits: Melissa L. Sevigny Interviews Terry Tempest Williams

      A Reservoir for Our Spirits:
      An Interview with Terry Tempest Williams

      October 30, 2019
      1
    • Taken in by a Wild Bird: Nancy Campbell Interviews Tim Dee

      Taken in by a Wild Bird:
      An Interview with Tim Dee

      September 1, 2019
    • A Wildness in Design: Melissa Sevigny Interviews Nicole Walker

      A Wildness in the Design:
      An Interview with Nicole Walker

      June 13, 2019

    • Questions I Dare Ask:
      An Interview with Amy Irvine

      March 10, 2019
  • Reviews + Reads
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    • Review:
      Elizabeth Bradfield's Toward Antarctica

      May 19, 2020
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    • River, forest, and mountain

      Review:
      Todd Davis’s Native Species

      April 17, 2020
    • Columbia River at sunrise

      Review:
      Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song

      April 1, 2020
      2
    • Fly fishing at sunset

      Review:
      Cloudbursts and The Longest Silence

      February 24, 2020

    • Review:
      The Night’s Magician:
      Poems about the Moon

      January 24, 2020

    • Imagine the Loss of Something Very Large:
      A Review of Losing Miami, Poems

      December 28, 2019
    • Review: Toi Derricotte's "I" New and Selected Poems

      Review:
      Toi Derricotte’s “I”
      New and Selected Poems

      December 2, 2019
  • ARTerrain
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    • Nature Morte: Birdworks
      By Carol Eckert

      April 21, 2020
      ARTerrain
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    • Ice Visions: Photographs by Erik Hoffner

      Ice Visions: Photographs
      By Erik Hoffner

      January 3, 2020
    • Atlantic City: Photographs by Brian Rose

      Atlantic City: Photographs
      By Brian Rose

      October 6, 2019
    • Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes by David Paul Bayles

      Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes
      By David Paul Bayles

      May 28, 2019
    • Dams, Heroic and Doomed: Paintings by Judith Belzer

      Dams, Heroic and Doomed:
      Paintings by Judith Belzer

      February 11, 2019
    • Organic Structures: Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

      Organic Structures:
      Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

      October 19, 2018
    • Time-Binding: Installations and Drawings by Sarah Hardesty

      Time-Binding:
      Installations and Drawings
      by Sarah Hardesty

      June 11, 2018
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    • Unsprawl:
      Milwaukee Avenue Historic District
      Minneapolis, Minnesota

      July 9, 2019
      To Know a Place, Unsprawl
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      Unsprawl:
      The Community of Civano
      Tucson, Arizona

      April 14, 2019
    • Unsprawl: Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve, Maryland, by Claudia Kousoulas

      Unsprawl:
      The Agricultural Reserve
      Montgomery County, Maryland

      December 13, 2018

    • Canberra: A Good Sheep Station Ruined
      by Catherine Mauk

      May 25, 2017

    • The Retail Landscape:
      A Photography Project by Drew Harty

      November 3, 2016

    • Sustainable Chattanooga 2.0
      by Ernest J. Yanarella + Robert W. Lancaster

      September 18, 2016

    • The Village Place Concept
      in Pinehurst, North Carolina

      August 30, 2015
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Tagged biology

Aerial view of creek, woods, and wetlands

Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry):
Living on Osprey Time: Journaling
by David Gessner

April 30, 2020
Currents, Video, Walks and Talks with Dave (and Henry)
  Nature Writing During the Quarantine https://youtu.be/1hNNS4T2QU8 Since this is a class about Thoreau (sort of) it is fitting that this four... Read More...
Coronavirus and globe

Environmental Learning and COVID-19
by Mitchell Thomashow

April 7, 2020
Currents, Environmental Learning in the Anthropocene
14
  Seven Environmental Learning Opportunities Emerging from the COVID-19 Pandemic   I’m writing this from rural New Hampshire. Although I’... Read More...
Blue iceberg in Holkham Bay, Alaska

Hysteresis
by Cara Stoddard

February 11, 2020
Contest, Nonfiction
  Winner : Terrain.org 10th Annual Contest in Nonfiction   Click button above to listen to Cara Stoddard read this essay, or click here... Read More...
8 Captures of 2 Coyotes, by Alex Turner

A Life of Science:
Revealing the River
by Alex Turner

January 27, 2020
A Life of Science, Nonfiction
  A Series by New Scientists A richer, more comprehensive story is revealed only when you dig below the surface; when your ability to see place... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Science, Snakes, and Duct Tape
by Brian Blais

November 22, 2019
A Life of Science, Nonfiction
  A Series by New Scientists   We met at eight in the morning at a dirt parking lot just inside the national forest entrance. It was ear... Read More...
The Reaper of the Sea, by Naila Moreira

The Reaper of the Sea
by Naila Moreira

September 17, 2019
Nonfiction
  We have to learn from the dead to help the living.   The dead seal lies on the table. The bulk of it unignorable: the heavy torpedo-sha... Read More...
Taken in by a Wild Bird: Nancy Campbell Interviews Tim Dee

Taken in by a Wild Bird:
An Interview with Tim Dee

September 1, 2019
Interviews
  Interview by Nancy Campbell "By our rubbish we shall be known. By the gull on our rubbish, likewise."   Introduction Author, bir... Read More...

Always Knew I Was Adopted;
Just Found Out I’m Gay
by Sandra Steingraber

July 5, 2019
Currents, Guest Editorial
28
  A Coming Out Essay in Ten Parts 1. I’m gay. Five letters. Two syllables. Is there another declaration in the English language both smaller ... Read More...
Thomas Jefferson's Monster, by B.J. Hollars

Thomas Jefferson’s Monster
by B.J. Hollars

January 6, 2019
Nonfiction
  In April of 1796—nearly three years after resigning his post as Secretary of State—Thomas Jefferson received an unexpected package from Colone... Read More...
The Collecting Basket, by Lyn Baldwin

The Collecting Basket
by Lyn Baldwin

December 7, 2018
Nonfiction, To Know a Place
  Toronto 1968—In the black and white photo, my sister holds my hand, facing the camera with an enigmatic smile. Together, our bodies intersect ... Read More...
Organic Structures: Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

Organic Structures:
Fiber Art by Charlotte Bird

October 19, 2018
ARTerrain
  Skip to Galleries   Introduction by Charlotte Bird Roald Dahl once said, “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around... Read More...
Letter to America, by John Janovy, Jr.

Letter to America
by John Janovy, Jr.

May 11, 2018
Currents, Guest Editorial, Letter to America
  Guest Editorial     Dear America, We as a nation are being drowned by a narrative of fear and anger that now drives policy ... Read More...
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