Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. - Edward Abbey
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. - Edward Abbey
campingemporium.com
A beautiful Great Blue Heron at Fernhill Wetlands outside Portland Oregon.
I went out on my usual walk earlier tonight, but instead of taking photos or listening to an audiobook or podcast I just looked around and thought about things. More or less like this.
https://buttondown.com/talking-to-myself/archive/rewilding-in-the-uspol/
I send thanks to the buyer from Oregon who purchased an art print of
First Light -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/first-light-steve-henderson.html?product=art-print
May the artwork take you to a place of intense silence and profound calm.
The #Mavista Rainforest walk on #BrunyIsland was spectacular today.
#PennicottWildernessJourneys
#wilderness
#rainforest
"Words are monuments: Patterns in US national park place names perpetuate settler colonial mythologies including white supremacy". People And Nature journal. April 2022.
"The idea of wilderness and ‘pristine’ national parks is an invention and ecologically unsound. …uninhabited wilderness had to be created before it could be preserved."
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10302
#SettlerColonialism #Histodon #LandBack #NationalParks #Wilderness #Indigenous #Genocide
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Ranger Sarah has made it to Bear Trap Creek on the Bear Trap Canyon Trail in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area.
— at Bear Trap Canyon National Recreation Trail
Ranger Sarah enjoys another nice view. Every bend in the river gives another impressive view.
— at Bear Trap Canyon National Recreation Trail
Ranger Sarah with another view of the Madison River in Bear Trap Canyon..
— at Bear Trap Canyon National Recreation Trail
BARK Ranger Mocha takes the lead as Ranger Sarah hikes up the Madison River. The river here in the canyon features the famous Class IV - V Kitchen Sink rapid.
— at Bear Trap Canyon National Recreation Trail
Ranger Sarah takes in another view of the Madison River as she hikes through the Lee Metcalf Wilderness Area.
— at Bear Trap Canyon National Recreation Trail