Here is an excellent review, by Douglas Brinkley, of Donald Worster’s new John Muir biography, “A Passion for Nature.” Muir, of course, is considered to be the father of America’s wlderness preservation movement and the Sierra Club.
Advertisement
-
Search It!
-
Recent Entries
- Wisconsin bill would legalize hunting of sandhill cranes
- Wis. may allow hunting of sandhill cranes
- Mexican Gray Wolf: Still in trouble as recovery inches along
- A final refuge for gray wolves
- Mutated trout raise new concerns near mine sites
- Volunteers work to save terrestrial critters from mankind (motor vehicles)
- Leak offrs glimpse into anti-climate change organization
- Open space? What open space?
- Bird conservation group says wind eagle take permit not justified
- In Tee Vee gig, Santorum buttresses his resume for dumbness
-
Links
- A year without a car
- Adirondack Almanack
- Adirondack Center for Writing
- Adirondack Council
- Adirondack Mountain Club
- Al Gore's Journal
- Alliance for Biking and Walking
- American Birds Conservancy
- Andy Kerr
- Backyard Bird Cam Blog
- Boreal Songbird Conservation
- Branch Out Burlington
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Carl Hiaasen’s Miami Herald columns
- Carl Safina, author, conservationist, marine scientist
- Chesapeake Bay Journal
- Cimate Progress
- Cliff Mass Weather Blog
- Climate adaptation strategies
- Coal Tattoo
- Coastal Care.org
- Community ORV Watch
- Complete Streets
- Conservation Magazine
- Conserving the Future/America's Wild Read
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Cougar Network
- Cougar Rewilding Foundation
- Dam Removal blog, National Park Service
- David Horsey, editorial cartoonist
- DeadMalls.com
- DeSmogBlog
- Eastern Cougar Blog
- Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge
- End of Suburbia
- environment360/Yale
- EPA's Acid Rain blog
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting's environment blog
- Florida Panther.net
- Follow the Energy Money (aka Big Coal, Big Oil)
- George Wuerthner’s commentary
- Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
- Green Mountain Club/Burlington section
- High Country News' Goat Blog
- High Plains Films
- Idaho Rivers United
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- James Howard Kunstler’s essays
- Jeff Masters' WunderBlog
- Jim Manis On Most Anything
- Lake Placid, New York, Olympic venues
- Local Motion
- Lowbagger
- Mauna Loa carbon dioxide readings
- Max Mayfield's Hurricane Blog
- Mount Washington Observatory, New Hampshire
- National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
- National Park Service Natural Sounds Program
- National Parks Traveler
- National Society of Newspaper Columnists
- Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
- Nordic Walking Blog
- North American Amphibian Monitoring Program
- North Branch Land Trust
- Northeast Environmental Reporting Hub
- Northeast Regional Climate Center
- NRDC's Switchboard blog
- Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park
- Operation Free (veterans for energy security)
- Peeling Bak the Bark
- PennFuture (Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future)
- Pennsylvania Land Trust Association, Conserve Land
- Plant Conservation Alliance
- Protect the Adirondacks
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
- public Interest reporting n Maine
- Ralph Maughan’s Wildlife News
- Refuge Watch
- Research at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science
- Roadless Land.org
- Rocky Mountain Climate
- Safe Road Crossings for Wildlife
- Saguaro National Park
- Santa Fe Plaza
- Save the Carbon Blog
- Save the Frogs
- Sky Truth
- State of the Birds 2010
- State of the Birds 2011
- Streets Blog
- Ted Williams' Conservation Connection
- The Daily Climate
- The Deadrise
- The Larch Company
- The Observatory of "CJR"
- The Oregonian's Environment Blog
- The Wolverine Blog
- Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership
- Thunderbear
- Truman Project
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Open Spaces blog
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Climate Change Portal
- USFWS Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program
- Vermont Botanical & Bird Club
- Vermont Center for Ecostudies
- Vermont Coverts
- Vermont Folklife Center
- Voices for the Lake
- VoteVets.org
- Western Soundscapes audio
- Western Watersheds Project
- White-nose Syndrome Response Plan
- Whiteface Mt., N.Y., from near Saranac Lake
- Wilderness Sportsman.com
- Wolverine Foundation
- Year of the Turtle
