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Tim Van Deelen

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Tawdry Kings

I’m here again because I’ve been coming to places like this since I was a boy and I still carry the things I’ve found.

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In the Aggregate

My parents sacrificed to show my two siblings and me the astonishing riches of the United States as protected by the National Park Service. We

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Scratching at the mud

This is the dilemma of the herbivore in winter–the urgency of needing calories when the calories are most scarce.

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Grand Calumet

The Grand Calumet River is likely the most polluted river in the Great Lakes watershed, maybe in all of North America.

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Darkness

I can only see 100 yards or so into the fog and it consumes me, envelopes, covers, holds, me.

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Conversations

Conversations occur in the context of a community, one’s colleagues, students, family members – and other interested people.

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November

I am proud of my miserliness, proud that my coveralls are older than my adult kids, proud that I remember when fieldwork was familiar and

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Plain member

Seventy-five years ago (October 27, 1949), Sand County Almanac (SCA) was published (Oxford University Press). It emerged from a great collection of essays and musings

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One Thing

So. What’ll it be today? Rage or despair? Or can I manage to set them aside for a while? At least enough to get my

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