by blog-nelson | Jul 15, 2013 | Enemies Project, Random thoughts
Racism. Ugly word, but it is reality. I love the USA, and I also hate it at times. The USA is looking at racism again now as a jury in the Trayvon Martin case acquitted the man who killed him (if you don’t know this case just search for Trayvon...
by blog-nelson | Jan 27, 2011 | Conservation, Roadless Project, Writings
I don’t know how many minutes had passed. I was engrossed. Sitting cross-legged and looking at my journal I was concentrating on the words I was crafting. Around me the sky was slowly shifting from light to darker blue as the sun retreated westward and Aspen...
by blog-nelson | Jun 4, 2009 | Conservation, Roadless Project, Writings
October , 2007, 4:36 am The sun won’t rise for another hour or more, and it is pitch black beneath the trees. My headlamp illuminates only a small circle of steeply rising trail. The world is reduced, constricted by my limited senses. I hear mostly the crunch of my...
by blog-nelson | Apr 24, 2009 | Conservation, Roadless Project, Writings
July 6, 2006, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho It isn’t yet dawn. The birds are starting to make their declarations, and the wind is gently flapping the sides of my tent. My breaths cloud the air in front of me, and I can see nothing outside the screen yet. The last two days...
by blog-nelson | Feb 9, 2009 | Conservation, Roadless Project, Writings
This is an excerpt from the book I am writing about my journey searching for and photographing National Forest Roadless Areas. This photograph and bit of my journal is from when I was in the Mallard Larkins Pioneer area of northern Idaho. You can see more...
