by blog-nelson | Apr 22, 2019 | Art Science and Creativity, Conservation, Roadless Project, Writings
The idea of earth day is funny when you think about it. Shouldn’t we always be thinking about the earth? After all, it’s the place where we live. The only one. This is it. Can’t upgrade or move to a new neighborhood. I used to be clueless about all...
by blog-nelson | Oct 16, 2011 | Art Science and Creativity, Conservation, Featured, Writings
“We want to live in peace with the elephants, but they are crazy.” from a Masai volunteer for WWF who monitors elephant conflicts in Masai communities. Driving into Transmara from the Rift Valley around the Masai Mara is a bit shocking. Lush green...
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...
