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Reading On Location: Moby Dick (Part 1)

Eric Sep 19, 2023 Ahab, Bible, Herman Melville, Massachusetts, Mount Greylock

And Melville Made A Grove Moby Dick I’m not naive enough to think that a writer simply writes. She may put pen to paper, and I admit that this is

Acting on the Anger: A Micro-Memoir

Eric Apr 14, 2023 Bible, Religion

Welcome to my memoir. [It is very small, but in the way that the shed behind your house is. It may not matter to each day, but among the things

Yellowstone Bear World’s VIP Cub Encounter: A ScholarDay Alternative

Eric Mar 20, 2021 Bear, Yellowstone Bear World

[March 2022 Addendum: Given Yellowstone Bear World’s continued disregard of Law And Order (see Animal Welfare Act 2.131 – Handling of Animals below) ScholarDay is pleased to announced that our

My Public Comment: Kilgore Project February 2021

Eric Feb 09, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Cyanide, Environmental, environmental disasters, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Grizzly Bears, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Otis Gold, Snake River Plain Aquifer

To whom it may concern at Caribou-Targhee National Forest, I am writing with concerns about the current Environmental Assessment relating to the Kilgore Project. My concerns are about both the

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 5: The Punchline

Eric Feb 04, 2021 Backpacking Idaho, Big Table Mountain, Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Continental Divide, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Habitat Corridor, Idaho, Idaho Falls, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Otis Gold, Religion, Ridgeline, Snake River Plain Aquifer

A Reckoning It’s time that I admit that the Downstream Effects series has been misguided. Almost all 7,250 words of parts 1 through 4 of this series of posts have

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 4: The Snake River Plain Aquifer

Eric Jan 29, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Crow Creek, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Nez Perce War, Otis Gold, Snake River Plain Aquifer, The Decemberists, Yellowstone NP

Love Letters Again, Still By now, it may or may not be clear that each Part of the Downstream Effects series is a love letter that is also a sword

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 3: Nez Perce National Historical Park

Eric Jan 20, 2021 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Colonialism, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, Otis Gold, The Dying Grass, William T. Vollmann, Yellowstone NP

This third part of our series on the Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project – which could just as easily, and perhaps more persuasively, be named Reasons To Oppose The

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 2: Camas NWR

Eric Jan 14, 2021 Camas NWR, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Forest Service, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mountain Drainages, Mud Lake WMA, Otis Gold

A Second Affair If you write one love letter to a place you’ve never been to, it might be construed as endearing. Like the time I wrote a letter to

Downstream Effects of the Kilgore Project Part 1: Mud Lake

Eric Jan 10, 2021 Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Centennial Mountains, Cyanide, Excellon Resources, Grassroots Activism, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Idaho, Idaho 33, Kilgore Project, Mining, Mud Lake WMA, Nez Perce, Otis Gold

Memories of Mud Lake I wish I had more memories of Mud Lake. In fact, I can’t honestly say that I’ve seen the lake itself or its adjacent wetlands, since

Parmenides in the Panhandle

Eric Apr 20, 2020 Joshua Tree NP, Oklahoma, Parmenides, Philosophy

I have not read Proust (although Swann’s Way is a paperweight for me just now, trying to flatten some poems whose edges can’t help but curl up), and so don’t

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