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Tag Archives: community
Winter Spring
Mid-February, and I track through the snow toward a big spring in the hills. I’d follow the deer prints but it’s easier to step inside the wheel ruts of an ATV. I read new promise in the strengthening light. Grouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Leopold, community, environmental law, headwaters, nature, place, poetry, politics, preservation, prose, small streams, winter spring, writing
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Indian Pipe (World Among Many)
With roots set deep, with leaves translucent, the plant’s waxy fingers pull death from the ground. The Corpse Plant, epiparasitic, is a smoky spirit of the dark woods, of fecund banks near rotting beech or pine trees, nodding its head … Continue reading
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Tagged community, destruction, environment, fishing, humor, Indian Pipe, nature, photography, poetry, politics, writing
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A Small Stream Fantasy
At last the upstate temperature had risen into the 50s, and snow-melt rushed down from the hills. In this topsy-turvy world of climate change, the New York weather might now be warmer (again) than the winds of Barrow, Alaska. Oh, … Continue reading
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Tagged community, dreams, environments, essay, fantasy, freedom, nature, poetry, reality, sense of place, small stream, Spring, Thoreau, wild, writing
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More Than Fish, Alone
Back in the day when I read poetry to the public and published lots of stuff in magazines and in books, I had a small but certain following of people who, for the most part, haven’t followed my transition over … Continue reading
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Tagged Allegheny River, blogging, brook trout, community, Earth Day, fish, Genesee, Genesee River, Gold, headwaters, narrative, nature, opening day, PA, Pine Creek, poetry, streamer, Triple Divide, West Branch, wild trout
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A Village Celebration
About 22 years ago the local historical society planned a party. The town of Greenwood was turning 165 years old, and the group approached me to write and to share a poem or two for a gathering at the Methodist … Continue reading
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Tagged American chestnut, bullfrog, cake, community, Dan Redmond, Greenwood, happy birthday, historical society, lumber, natural history, poetry, thresher, tree planting, trees, village, white pine
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A Century Gone
The passenger pigeon was once the most abundant wild bird in North America and, perhaps, in all the world. It’s been said that more than a quarter of all the birds in North America in the 1800s were Ectopistes migratorius, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldo Leopold, birds, community, conservation, extinction, freedom, habitat destruction, history, local history, mobility, nature, old ways, overhunting, passenger pigeon, pollution, sense of place
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Rivertop Rambles 
Gray Hair and Grizzly Hackle
Ever since I joined several outdoor organizations and started to attend their regular meetings in the 1990s, I’ve been hearing a general complaint: Look around this room. Our hair is gray. We need some younger people, bright new faces interested … Continue reading →