Indian Affairs officials from Washington D.C. to the Lower Colorado River believed that milk, dairy, and beef (in other words, cows) would save the Indians in more than one way.
Environmental History Now.
(Re)Visiting the (Mental) Spaces of Our Research
“I have a bit of a provocative question for Taylor.”
Oh no. Here it comes.
“Have you ever done ayahuasca?”
The Forest that Grows Itself, The Poem that Writes Itself
How do you make a palm tree grow on the page? How do you capture the feeling of April? These are the kinds of questions that William Stanley Merwin’s poetry may be able to answer.
Rewilding Heritage: A Personal Response
Feral. The viscerality of this single word was enough to capture my attention. I had no idea that this book would introduce me to something so frighteningly obvious that I was almost angry that this concept was so new to me.
Understanding Women’s Contributions to Ecological Field Research
I had written almost exclusively about men. That’s something I realized after finishing my book manuscript.
The Dinosaurs that Live Among Us: Revisiting Questions of Time and Place in Urban Parks
Through the course of my PhD research, I found myself escaping with increasing frequency to parks of different kinds in the cities I made home.
Working the In-Between: The Thrill of Interdisciplinarity
With little attention given to the links that interconnect the pieces we have created, problems arise when trying to reconnect that puzzle. At these moments, we venture into the murky realm of interdisciplinary research.