by Andy Updegrove | Jan 2, 2021 | My Writing, Wilderness Journal
There are many everyday language tools (metaphors, similes, memes and so on) we take for granted, barely noticing them as we use or hear them. That they scarcely register doesn’t detract from their value, though, as these efficient shortcuts aid understanding, add...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 19, 2020 | My Writing, Nature, Wilderness Journal
Public land is – or, at least should be – just that: public. But what does that mean? And who should be able to decide how such common ground is used? One person’s wilderness policy may be another’s government overreach. John McPhee (one of my favorite authors)...
by Andy Updegrove | Dec 5, 2020 | My Writing, Nature, Wilderness Journal
Cheatgrass is an innocuous-looking plant you’ll encounter everywhere in the Great Basin. At higher elevations, it’s a wispy, occasional presence filling in the spaces between patches of sagebrush. But in the wide valleys between the mountains it reigns supreme,...
by Andy Updegrove | Nov 28, 2020 | My Writing, Nature, Wilderness Journal
August 25, 2005 – One of the great appeals to me of the Southwest is the ability to notice and appreciate each individual element of the natural surroundings as I encounter it. Water and nutrients are scarce, so plants keep their distance; some even exude...
by Andy Updegrove | Oct 25, 2020 | My Writing, Nature, Wilderness Journal
If you want to really get away, you should consider Nevada. Esmeralda County’s one thousand, three hundred forty-four inhabitants, for example, had two million, two hundred eighty-four thousand acres all to themselves in 1996. Today, fewer than eight hundred of those...
by Andy Updegrove | Jun 7, 2020 | My Writing
The first assertion of liberty in the U.S. Declaration of Independence reads as follows: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty...
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