On Nature, Wilderness, Conservation, & Land Management
Idea in Dream for a Quick-and-dirty, Short but Important Book About (or Called):
What Everybody Should Know about Plants and their Conservation) (1 June 2001)
Miscellaneous Thoughts (3 January 2002)
Regarding Plowing of San Joaquin (3 January 2002)
The Eggbeater Analogy (on global and local diversity) (4 August 2001)
Another Rationale for the Book (4 February 2002)
Art/Nature Analogies (5 February 2002)
Introduction - How to Interact with the "Natural" World (6 January 2002)
Various Approaches (to land management), All "Right" (6 January 2002)
Quiz (on scavenger birds) (7 December 2004)
Nature Can Inspire and It Can Bore (7 February 2001)
What is Ma Nature Trying to Tell Us? (7 January 2001)
Education in Natural History and Systematics (8 February 2001)
The Two Big Events (11 November 2004)
Doublespeak and Plain Lies (12 December 2004)
Valley Productivity and Heaven (12 November 2004)
Rarity and Abundance (the Have's and the Have-nots) (12 October 2001)
First of March, Mustard (13 February 2001)
For "Wide Open Spaces" / "Views Across Valleys" Essay (13 February 2001)
Redwoods Again (13 February 2001)
"Leaving the World Better..." (13 February 2001)
Regarding Seasons (13 June 2001)
People Needed (to Tend the Land) (13 October 2004)
Dreaming of a Green Christmas - a New-Old Seasonal Symbology for Californians (15 January 2002)
Bottom Line: We All Live Off the Land! (16 January 2001)
Five Mass Extinctions (18 February 2001)
Another Look at Cain and Abel (19 March 2001)
Note to County Planners, Lawmakers, Anybody in Power (20 December 2001)
Nature Tug-of-war (22 December 2001)
For Intro or...? (on "progress" in the modern world) (22 January 2002)
Great Valley / Dead Valley (23 April 2001)
The Shaw Story: How An Amateur Did It Right the First Time (24 January 2001)
Enjoyable Things You Can Do to Lead You Deeper into Your Natural Environs (26 July 2001)
Off the Land (27 February 2001)
The Things People Could Do if Only They/We Would (on cooperative conservation) (28 April 2001)
We Couldn't Have Colonized This Country in a Worse Way (28 April 2004)
The Golden Mean (A Basic Question - A Starting Point) (29 December 2001)
Happy New Year (30 January 2001)
Re: Flower Field (31 December 2001)
Near Watsonville (on the landscape changing for the worse) (31 January - 1 February 2001)
Cats Out of the Bag Department, or Pandora's Box (on humans introducing harmful species)
Introduced Problems (list of introduced species with descriptions)
Michael Pollan's Second Nature - A Gardener's Education
More Regarding Disconnection (on the separation between humans and nature)