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Shasta and Her Cubs
The Struggle for Survival
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One morning in early spring, high in the unforgiving Canadian Rocky Mountains, a young bear gives birth to her first cubs. There are three of them, each hairless, blind, and helpless. Shasta and Her Cubs is the story of that mother’s struggles to...
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It's Over It's Beginning Again
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F.W. Watt published It’s Over It’s Beginning in 1986 (The Porcupine’s Quill, Inc.). More than fifty poems were included, capturing what seemed like a whole lifetime of personal experience, in contrasting country and city worlds, poems about gains...
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The Schizophrenic Society
Lost in a make-believe world while we destroy the real one
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Why does humanity seem unable to step off its unsustainable path, even with so many direct symptoms - from climate change to ecological destruction and peak resources - becoming more and more apparent? Striving to answer this question, The...
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A Life Outdoors
Essays on Hunting, Gathering and Country Living in the 21st Century
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The 21st Century is a time of profound and wrenching change. The phrase “stop the world, I want to get off” never seemed more appropriate. Robert Sopuck caught his first fish at age 4 in the presence of his father. That fish set off a lifetime of...
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Hugging Trees in Los Angeles
The experience of communing with Nature
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When Ari Hahyar set out to learn to commune with nature, he knew little about botany or the mysticism of plants; he knew only the happiness he felt when he would leave his Santa Monica condo for a walk in the woods. In Hugging Trees in Los...
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Aspens on the Ridge
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Similar to the genre of Red Pines and Foxes, Aspens on the Ridge describes natural history of the North American plains and prairies from the ice age to the present.
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The Beekeeper's Wife
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The Beekeeper’s Wife is inspired by Herbert Scott’s poem of the same name. It is an attempt to imagine the life of the woman behind the poem. Shanda Hansma Blue’s The Beekeeper’s Wife is a brilliant poetic argument between nature and the reader,...
