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The search for a common language : environmental writing and education / edited and with an introduction by Melody Graulich and Paul Crumbley

Author
Graulich, Melody, 1951-
Published
Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press Logan, ©2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 202 pages)
Additional Creators
Crumbley, Paul, 1952-
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Open Access.
Contents
Introduction / Paul Crumbley, Melody Graulich -- Preliminary reflections on matters environmental / Carolyn Tanner Irish -- Painted lady / Ken Brewer -- Who lost the limberlost? Education in a mis-placed age / Robert Michael Pyle -- The silliest debate / Ken Brewer -- Cousins: what the great apes tell us about human origins / Craig B. Stanford -- Why dogs stopped flying / Ken Brewer -- How science and the public can lead to better decision making in earth system management / Hartmut Grassl -- Martha / Ken Brewer -- What is the L.A. River? / Jennifer Price -- The river blind / Ken Brewer -- The unexpected environmentalist: building a centrist coalition / Ted Kerasote -- Dermatophagoides / Ken Brewer -- At cloudy pass: the need of being versed in human things / Louis Owens -- Trying not to lie / Ken Brewer -- Tuttle road: landscape as environmental text / Kent C. Ryden -- The Tarantula Hawk / Ken Brewer -- Begin with a river / Annick Smith -- How to train a horse to burn / Ken Brewer -- The natural west / Dan Flores -- Sheep / Ken Brewer -- Separation anxiety: the perilous alienation of humans from the wild / Ellen Meloy -- Largest living organism on earth / Ken Brewer -- Going south / William Kittredge -- Now the sun has come to earth / Ken Brewer -- The Pleiades / Susan J. Tweit -- Scarlet Penstemon / Ken Brewer -- Poetry reading at the Tanner Conference / Keith Wilson -- Common cause in common voice / Robert Michael Pyle.
Summary
A stellar group of writers, scientists, and educators illuminate the intersections between environmental science, creative writing, and education, considering ways to strengthen communication between differing fields with common interests.
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ISBN
0874215145 (electronic bk.)
9780874215144 (electronic bk.)
0874216125 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780874216127 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202).
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