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Residencies for Nature and Outdoors Writers

Posted on 01/11/2012 by patwa

Spring Creek – University of Oregon – writer in residence program Mesa Refuge, Point Reyes Station, California – writer’s residency Taos Summer Writer’s Conference – fiction and non-fiction writing conference Voices of the Wilderness  – artist’s residency Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska – resident fellowships … Continue reading →

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Snowmageddon Maryland February 2010

Posted on 19/03/2010 by patwa
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Environmental Movement in China

Posted on 28/03/2009 by patwa

Photos from China— Gulangyu Island where cars are not permitted …… and Shanghai, where cars rule. China’s Emerging Environmental Movement – Environment 360

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Nature Writing Exercise

Posted on 28/03/2009 by patwa

A few thoughts to start your thoughts about your relationship with nature and the natural world: What is your first memory of nature or the outdoors? What is the role of the writer in observing and reporting about the natural … Continue reading →

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Books About Nature Writing

Posted on 16/01/2009 by patwa

Productive mountaintop dialogue between conservationist Theodore Roosevelt (left) and progressive preservationistJohn Muir (right). photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Keeping a Nature Journal Clare Walker Leslie and Charles E. Roth, forward by Edward O. Wilson Storey Books, Pownal, Vt. … Continue reading →

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