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The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 17, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Red Drum, Sciaenops oscellatus. Walter I. Priest, III
• Marina Site Suitability Tool Available. Marcia Berman, Tamia Rudnicky, Kirk Havens and Thomas Barnard
• Virginia Wetlands Report Reader Survey Result. Tom Barnard
• Sphagnum Moss: Natural Properties Promote Historic Uses. Pam Mason
• Private Piers and Tidal Marsh Cumulative Impacts. Tom Barnard

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2002, The John Muir Center For Environmental Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

The John Muir NeWi pr FER UNlVEESnY OF THE PACIFIC, STOCKTON, CA V( ilume 12, Number 4. Fall 2002; John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley 7- suppose you have heard that they have drafted up in Marquette County and will be anxious to hear who are drafted you may be glad you were not taken."l Annie Muir penned these words in November, 1862, to her brother John who was a student at Wisconsin State University in Madison. Two years before, when he was twenty-two years old, John had traveled from his farm home in Marquette County to …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 17, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Hellgrammites and Their Relatives. Rebecca Jo Thomas
• Book Review Wetlands Explained. Walter I. Priest, III
• GPS Technology Lends Support to the Marsh Project. Marcia Berman and Harry Berquist
• Phragmites australis (Reed Grass) Bane or Beneficence? Kirk Havens
• Impacts of Sea Level Rise Studied in Pamunkey River Marshes. Carl Hershner
• Worldwide Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Wetland Losses: Are the Two Irrevocably Linked? Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 2002, The John Muir Center

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

o NEWSLETTER John Muir's Aunt Mary by Roberta M. McDow ost people acquainted with the life of John Muir are probably aware that his father Daniel and Daniel's sister Mary were orphans. In 1885, John wrote in his obituary for his father: His mother was English, his father Scotch and he was born in Manchester, England in the year 1804. When he was only six months old his mother died and he lost his father also a few months later when an elder sister became a mother to him and brought him up on a farm that belonged to a …

The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2002, The John Muir Center

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

\f Volume 12, Number 2 NEWSLETTER Nature's Temple: John Muir's Spiritual Home by The Rev. Chris Highland, Marin County (Edited from an original paper delivered at the California History Institute/University of the Pacific John Muir Conference; May, 2001.) "In our best times everything turns into religion, f;lj all the world seems a church and the mountains altars. " ~ My First Summer in the Sierra homeless person told me recently that he wasn't homeless. He was tired after a long walk; his clothes were a little dirty; his hair and bushy beard were messed up and he reacted against a …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 17, No. 1, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Spotted Sandpiper. Walter I. Priest, III
• Book Review Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral. David O’Brien
• Natural Resource Agencies Identify GIS Data Necessary to Address Agency Mandates. Marcia Berman
• Update on Virginia’s New and Improved Nontidal Wetlands Program. Ellen Gilinsky
• Studies Document Weaknesses in 404 Compensatory Mitigation. Tom Barnard
• Wetlands Yield Oriental Treats. Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2001/2002, The John Muir Center

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 12, Number 1 NEWSLETTER John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa by Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno (Continued from the Summer/Fall issue. Excerpted from Michael Branch's new book, John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished Journal and Selected Correspondence. Copyright © 2001 by Island Press. Published by Island Press/Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C, and Covelo, California. All rights reserved. Hardcover $27.50. ISBN 1-55963-640-8. To order John Muir's Last Journey, please call Island Press at (800) 828-1302, or place your order at the Island Press website, www.islandpress.org ve had a most glorious …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 16, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Diamondback Terrapin. Walter I. Priest, III
• A GIS approach for Targeting Potential Wetlands Mitigation or Restoration Sites. Marcia Berman and Tamia Rudnicky
• Bay Managers Eye Recently Permitted SAV Losses. Lyle Varnell and Jay Woodward
• Through the Years in Virginia’s Wetlands: Days in the Field. Gene M. Silberhorn

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2001, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 11, Number 4 NEWSLETTER John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa By Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno ■; ;rt?Jxcerpted from Michael Branch's new book, John Muir's Last turney: South to the Amazon and East to Africa; Unpublished irnal and Selected Correspondence. Copyright © 2001 by fl§and Press. Published by Island Press/Shearwater Books, Wash- Bgton, D.C., and Covelo, California. All rights reserved. Hardcover $27.50. ISBN 1-55963-640-8. To order John Muir's Last Journey, please call Island Press at (800) 828-1302, or place your order at the Island Press website, www.islandpress.org. ve had a most glorious time on this …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 16, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Northern Water Snake. William L. Roberts
• Book Review Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America’s Wetlands. Tom Barnard
• Shoreline Situation Report Update. Marcia Berman
• A Summary of the EPA Rapid Bioassessment of Wetland Health Workshop.Rebecca Jo Thomas
• Through The Years in Virginia’s Wetlands: The 1970’s. Gene M. Silberhorn
• Atlantic White Cedar. Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2001, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

JOHN in lilt 111! Wl 11% m MUIR Spring 2001 WSLE "'That Florida flavor': Nature and Culture in jftoRA Neale Hurston's Work for the Federal Writers' Project"1 Valerie Levy, Decatur, Georgia WlfSclitor's Note: The noted African-American author, Zora Wfeale Hurston, is not widely known as a nature writer. For a discussion of her work in that vein, below is an excerpt from the work of an outstanding graduate student, Valerie Levy.) n 1938 famed African-American folklorist, anthropologist, and author Zora Neale Hurston left Harlem and returned to her home state, Florida, to supplement her income by working as a relief …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 16, No. 1, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• The Stinging Sea Nettle (Jellyfish). William L. Roberts
• The VIMS Teaching Marsh: A Tidal Wetland Restoration and Education Project. Karen Duhring
• An Overview of Permitted Tidal Wetland Impacts for 2000. Tom Barnard
• Wetlands Management Symposium Focuses on Technology and Conservation

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2000/2001, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWS TER Was John Muir A Woodsman? by Jason Meijia, California (Editor's Note: The former director of the John Muir ■Center, R. H. Limbaugh, has submitted the following paper as an example of outstanding undergraduate "■research on John Muir.) hat is a woodsman? Several definitions are available. First, Webster's College Dictionary defines the term as "a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping." Secondly, a special operations organization, spECOps, with the United States Special Forces Veterans, provides global survival training and according to it, a modern "woodsman" should …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 15, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Fiddler Crab. William L. Roberts
• CCI Develops New Online GIS Resources. Marcia Berman
• Increasing the Probability of Success in the Construction of Marshes in Coastal Virginia. Kirk J. Havens, Lyle M. Varnell,and Bryan D. Watts
• VIMS Shoreline Reports to Be Updated and Go Online.

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 2000, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

I J ' Ov Volume 10, Number 4 NEWSLETTER I Fall 2000 A Sense of the Natural by Richard F. Fleck w rom the time of my first published essay about a Maine sea coast tidal pool in June, 1954 (when I was not quite seventeen), until now, some forty-six fpars later, my major source of inspiration has been the Batural world, be it the Irish Mountains of Mourne rolling flown to the sea or the rocky coast of Maine, or the windy Himmits of Longs Peak, Colorado or Mount Fuji, Japan, ■have always delighted in the smell of turf …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 15, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Grass Shrimp. Walter I. Priest, III
• Book Review Seashore Chronicles: Three Centuries of the Virginia Barrier Islands. Anne Newsom
• Grass Shrimp. Walter I. Priest, III
• A New Land Cover Data Set Now Available For Virginia’s Tributaries. Marcia Berman
• DEQ Implementing Nontidal Wetlands Protection Mandate. Ellen Gilinsky
• Sago Palm. Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 2000, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

u Volume 10, Number 3 oi. Summer 21)01) NEWSLETTER Reconstruction of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, California WEditor's Note: This is Part IV of Steve Pauly's article recreating John Muir's first public talk; the earlier parts appeared in 1999 issues.) OSEMITE CREEK GLACIER The broad, many-fountained glacier to which the basin of Yosemite Creek belonged, was about fourteen miles in BSngth by four in width, and in many places was not less than a ^thousand feet in depth. Its principal tributaries issued from lofty .iphitheatres laid well back among the northern spurs of …

The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 2000, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWSLETTER M Transcendentalist by L. Mikel Vause, Weber State University he term "transcendentalist" evokes an interesting image. Generally when one thinks of a transcendentalist, the image of a little brown-skinned mystic, sitting in lotus position chanting "ommm" comes to ihind. Although American transcendentalism certainly does have Far Eastern roots, one ascribing to that title is Br more likely to be found tramping around the back country rather than curled up on a mat contemplating the ilssence of existence. The founder of American transcendentalism is Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Sage of Concord." It was Emerson who, with the publication of Nature …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 15, No. 1, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• A Crawfish by any Other Name Would Taste as Sweet. Pam Mason
• Salt Marsh Snails. Walter I. Priest, III
• Book Review For the Health of the Land: Previous Unpublished Essays and Other Writings. Anne Newsom
• Computing Isolated Wetlands in the Commonwealth. Marcia Berman and Tamia Rudnicky
• Virginia Debates Nontidal Wetlands Regulation. Carl Hershner

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 2000, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

volume 10, Number 1 ^%4Km§-Winter 2000 NEWSLETTER Some Writings and Words of John Muir Compared with Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Stan Hutchinson, Sierra Madre, California ohn Muir's earliest exposure to the writings of Henry D. Thoreau probably occurred in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Ezra S. Carr while he was a student it the Wisconsin State University, Madison, from ■ [lebruary, 1861, to June, 1863. The Carrs were keenly interested in the works of Emerson and Thoreau, and had (granted Muir access to their library. It is reasonable to presume his reading matter included Thoreau's Walden published …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 14, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Book Review Salt Tide: Cycles and Currents of Life Along the Coast. Anne Newsom
• Dragonflies: Hawks of the Insect World! Kirk Havens
• Corp of Engineers Maneuvering to Adjust James River Dredging Restrictions.Tom Barnard
• New Scholarship Housed at VIMS Online Fauna and Flora Data in Virginia. Marcia Berman
• Natural Lighting: Colonial Necessity is Today’s Craft. Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1999, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

TOP "i Volume 9, Number 4 MUIR Fall 1999 VULUMJ, J, HUMbEK 1 i; TALL 1333 newsXhtter John Muir's Struggle in the North: Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin by Hal Crimmel, Ph.D. raditionally, Muir's reputation has been that of America's foremost wilderness lover, sage, and advocate, unrelenting in his quest for a pure wilderness experience. "For Muir, wilderness was not a confrontation," Harold Simonson tells us, "but a confirmation."1 This is the Muir that captured the public's imagination, j|e Muir who could write, "The whole wilderness seems to be alive and familiar, full of humanity. The …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 14, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Virginia Horseshoe Crab Management Update. Tom Barnard and Lyle Varnell
• Applications for Wetlands Restoration in the Elizabeth River Watershed. Marcia Berman
• Historic Wetland Loss in the Elizabeth River. Walter I. Priest, III
• Recorded History was Revolutionized By a Wetland Plant. Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1999, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEW Reconstructing John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, California (Editor's Note: This is the third section of Steve Mauley's article which began with the Winter issue.) rock about two miles west of Lake Tenaya has a train of boulders derived from it. The boulders are scattered along a level ridge, where they have not ben disturbed in any appreciable degree since they came to rest toward the close of a glacial period. An examination of the rock proves conclusively that not only were they - rnany of which are twelve feet in diameter - …

The John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1999, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWSLETTER c Reconstructing John Mum's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, California (Editor's Note: In our previous issue, Steve Pauley's article placed John Muir's first public talk in context. Wmere is his re-creation of some sections of the talk.) n the beginning of the long glacial winter, the lofty Sierra seems to have consisted of one vast undulated wave, in which a thousand separate mountains, with their domes and spires, their innumerable canons and lake basins, lay concealed. In the development of these, the Master Builder chose for a tool, not the earthquake nor lightning to …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 14, No. 1, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Horseshoes Anyone? Tom Barnard and Lyle Varnell
• Striped Mullet. Lyle Varnell
• Shoreline Situation Reports: Revised, Revisited, and Updated. Marcia Berman
• Wetlands
• Initiative Gains Momentum. Carl Hershner The Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq. Pam Mason
• Compensatory Mitigation Issues: Is the planting of nonvegetated wetlands with wetland plants an acceptable form of mitigation? Kirk Havens
• What are benchmarks and why are they important in my permit application drawings? William Roberts

The John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1998/99, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

NEWSLETTER Winter 1998-99 The Importance of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876 by Steve Pauly, Pleasant Hill, CA INTRODUCTION his article focuses on Muir's first public lecture and its importance as one of several turning points in his evolution as a public figure. The venue was the Congregational Church in Sacramento on January 25, 1876. The lecture was the fifth in a series sponsored by the Sacramento Literary Institute. Muir approached this task with fear, began poorly and with apology, finally recalled his topic, enthralled the large audience with his discussion and illustration of the current and ancient glaciers …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 13, No. 3, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Tundra Swan. Julie G. Bradshaw
• What kind of educational courses and publications does the Wetlands Program offer? William Roberts
• Mummichog. Lyle Varnell
• Using Remote Sensing and GIS To Perform Jurisdictional Wetlands Determinations. Marcia Berman
• United States v. Wilson: Muddy Waters in the Search for Wetlands Protection. S. Fagan and Jim Perry
• Responding to the Chesapeake Executive Council Directive for Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals. Carl Hershner
• Wetlands: A Critical Resource in the Revolutionary War? Pam Mason

The John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1998, The John Muir Center For Regional Studies

Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015

Volume 8, Number 4 . I Fall 1998 NEWSLETTER The Muir Renaissance in Scotl by Graham White (Editor's note: A leading voice in the Scottish effort to wkdiscover John Muir, Graham White wrote the introduction to the Canongate collection of Muir's wilderness essays, and is completing a second volume of Muir Writings for that publisher. He can be reached at Brox- mouth Gardens, Dunbar, Scotland EH42 Iqw, or by e-mail at 101320.5 7@compuserve.com.) W. he John Muir Newsletter has invited me to outline the resurgence of interest in John Muir in the land of his birth, and to clarify various …

The Virginia Wetlands Report Vol. 13, No. 2, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

Virginia Wetlands Reports

• Wood Duck. Julie G. Bradshaw
• Striped Killifish. Lyle Varnell
• An Update on the Virginia Geographic Information Network. Marcia R. Berman
• Wild Rice. Pam Mason
• What is riprap? Is it preferred over a bulkhead for shoreline erosion control? William Roberts
• An Introduction to Stressed Habitats. James E. Perry, John E. Anderson, and Arnold F. Theisen