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Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton Feb 2018

Gothic: A Field Journal, Grant Paton

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An undergraduate’s memoir about his experience as a summer researcher at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado. The student explains his research in his own words and gives his thoughts on how he, the research center, and the other scientists there fit into the local and national society.


Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin Feb 2018

Form Follows Function, Lyn Baldwin

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Natural history. Teaching. Writing. All have form, all have function. But just as no architecture is risk-free, no architecture is neutral. In this personal essay, I explore the surprising connections that develop when university students engage with natural history as way of knowing the ground underfoot.


Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank Feb 2017

Sitting In The Bush, Or Deliberate Idleness, Sylvia Bowerbank

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In this essay, Sylvia Bowerbank describes wandering with her two dogs on her land on the edge of Beverly Swamp in Southern Ontario in an effort to cultivate Green habits and attitudes in her daily life.


Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow Aug 2016

Tangled Roots, Bittersweet Exposure, Chase Clow

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Accompanied by tree portraits, this personal narrative reflects upon the intersecting histories between the indigenous peoples of Marin County (north of San Francisco, CA) and the author, who is Euro-American, while contemplating the changing relationship to their shared woodland, the effects of colonization, and possibilities for healing.


From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon Aug 2016

From "Brief Eulogies For Lost Species", Daniel Hudon

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Since the year 1500, almost 900 species around the world have officially become extinct. Several of these species resided in Canada and though some are well known to the public, others are not. Here, briefly, are stories of five of them.


Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson Mar 2016

Bee Work | Departure, Anne Simpson

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How do we get closer to the nature of the bee’s, or any non-human's, experience, mystery that it is? This essay is a lyrical meditation on the power (and challenges) of poetry and language to access non-human worlds.


Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett Mar 2016

Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal, Brian Bartlett

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Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal is a fifty-entry plein-air writing project drafted between April 2013 and October 2014 by various bodies of water—rivers, brooks, lakes, bays, marshes, waterfalls, a vernal pond, a Japanese koi pond. Most of the writing was done in Nova Scotia locations, but some entries were drafted in New Brunswick, Montreal, Missouri, Manhattan, and London, England. I often walked from an hour to four or five hours, then sat down on bare earth, grass, sand, stone, or wood, and wrote, keeping attuned to my surroundings but also letting my mind and memory wander.


Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876 Feb 2016

Me Artsy Compiled And Edited By Drew Hayden Taylor, Nathalie N. Hager 2159876

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Review of Me Artsy compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.


Brushfire, Ariel Gordon Aug 2015

Brushfire, Ariel Gordon

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“Brushfire” concerns itself with how people use urban forests, from indecent exposure to poaching to teenage drinking party-bonfires that get out of control. Though it could be construed as a manifesto on walking-in-the-woods, it also touches on some of the conflicts inherent in urban/nature experiences.


Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye Aug 2015

Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar By Brian Bartlett, Joel Deshaye

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Joel Deshaye reviews Brian Bartlett's Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar


Deer In Their Own Coats, Daniel Coleman Jun 2015

Deer In Their Own Coats, Daniel Coleman

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Urban deer are requiring a renegotiation of settler-Six Nations relations in Hamilton, Ontario. In this article, Daniel Coleman attempts to get to know one doe group that share his neighbourhood in an effort to understand what their presence has to say about how Hamiltonians and members of the Hodinoso:ni Confederacy can honour the spirit of an eighteenth-century treaty in ways that enable us all to live with "the good mind" here at the Head of Lake Ontario in the twenty-first century.


Moose: Recollections From A Northern Childhood, Allison K. Athens Jul 2014

Moose: Recollections From A Northern Childhood, Allison K. Athens

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A creative reflection on growing up with moose.