pickI lived out west for 22 years and never heard about the 1910 fires. But I watched year after year as Yellowstone evolved after the fires of 1988. Egan brings it to life along with its heroic and cowardly moments. The subtitle is a bit misleading as it is Gifford Pinchot more than Teddy who is the policy focus. But the real interest for me lay not in the DC politics, but in the efforts of underfunded unappreciated forest rangers.
Found inside my 2nd hand copy “To Dad from SSCR” Four kids? A family nickname? I‘m intrigued.
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Lawrence Anthony details his struggle to save the last northern white rhinos.
Wonderfully written, albeit a hard read especially because rhinos are my favorite animal.
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1. My son adopted a feral kitten from a rescue who is very attached to only him. They now live in Los Angeles.
2. Not often.
3. The Elephant Whisperer
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pickThe history of the National Forest Service and the men who helped form it along with a horrific forest fire that happened in Idaho at the time. This was a really good book in face of what‘s happening now. (Pictured is a note written in a historic school house in Smoky Mountain National Park.)
I started a re-listen to this book about the beginnings of the US Forest Service and the response to massive wildfires in Idaho around that time. Somehow I had forgotten what a great conservationist Teddy Roosevelt was.
During this blog we turn the Authors Spotlight onto Lukas Klessig and his book “Words With My Father: A Bipolar Journey Through Turbulent Times”.
Words With My Father offers a gripping portrait of the evolution of a young man's mental illness and how it manifested into a dramatic and often dangerous existence through the turbulence of the Civil Rights, Peace and Conservation movements.
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