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Long-Term Ecological Reflections:
Art + Science at Bonanza Creek, Alaska
by Shelley Stonebrook

May 27, 2020

Currents, Long Term Ecological Reflections

A growing network of long-term ecological research sites in the United States (and beyond) features collaborations among the sciences, arts, a... Read More...

Nature Morte: Birdworks
By Carol Eckert

April 21, 2020

ARTerrain

Introduction by Carol Eckert One of the earliest stories in my strata of memory is “Peter and the Wolf,” a tale I knew not from the w... Read More...

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

March 12, 2020

Interviews

“When I moved to Arizona from Ohio, I was struck by the feeling that humans had no business living in this climate.” Introduction In giving ... Read More...

Ice Fishing
by Ellen Meloy

February 28, 2020

Nonfiction

“Another angler wanders over to our fishing spot. He chats about trout. Everything he says is untrue.” Click button above to hear t... Read More...

Sand
by Rachel Findlay

February 2, 2020

Contest, Nonfiction

Finalist : Terrain.org 10th Annual Contest in Nonfiction Monadhliath Mountains to Culbin’s Lost Villages Click button above to h... Read More...

Into Los Angeles
by Nick Neely

December 6, 2019

Nonfiction

In 2016, Nick Neely walked for 12 weeks from San Diego to San Francisco to retrace the first overland Spanish expedition into what’s now the s... Read More...

Beauty to Seduce, Beauty to Preserve:
Creating the Columbia Gorge
National Scenic Area
by Kevin Gorman

October 28, 2019

Currents, Guest Editorial

The Columbia River Gorge is the only place in the world where a mighty river crashes through the entirety of a mountain range. We go... Read More...

The Spiral Windings
by Julian Hoffman

June 8, 2019

Nonfiction

Unless our course is altered, it is we who will unwind the miraculous spiral of the sea. The shell was unlike any I’d ever seen, set ... Read More...

One Poem
by R. T. Smith

April 30, 2019

Poetry

Hellbender Cryptobranchus alleganiensis On the north fork of the Cowpasture twenty inches of devil dog swam in wick... Read More...

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...

Two Poems
by Amanda Hawkins

September 19, 2018

Poetry

Click button above to hear Amanda Hawkins read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Fractaline &nb... Read More...

One Poem
by R. T. Smith

April 6, 2018

Poetry

Click button above to hear R. T. Smith introduce and read this poem, or click here to download the poem in .mp3 format. Ocon... Read More...

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