Lay of the Land
Bring You Apples
WE CLIMBED the gray-slatted lookout tower as the lab bounded ahead, up stairs four at a time. Especially in autumn, after hiking the oak and beech woods of southern Indiana, my Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Lay of the Land
Protest as Practice
WHEN I FIND Warren Senders on the side of a Boston suburbs highway, he is ready to hand me a sign that reads, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IS SOCIAL JUSTICE. It’s only 7:30 Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Salmon Homecoming
TODAY, I’m watching salmon mating. On the banks of the Sandy River, the naturalist explains that I am looking at a female salmon building a nest, but all I see is Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Middle of Nowhere
THERE IS NO ROAD, hasn’t been a road since Gerlach, that crust of a town where we turned from pavement to playa, to hairline-fractured hardpan Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Prairie Chicken Marathon
I DRIVE OUT on Highway 10, leaving Houston behind — past Buc-ee’s gas station with the “cleanest restrooms in America” Continue reading