Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List Of Illustrations viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Acting On Behalf Of
7. Grass Futures 15
8. Wastewest 23
9. Sustaining Collaboration 33
10. A Natural History and Dioramic Performance 43
11. A Subtle Activism of the Heart 65
12. Sublime Animal 79
13. The Becoming-Animal of Being Caribou: Art, Ethics, Politics 87
14. Interlude 109
15. Poetry, Science, and Knowledge of Place 117
16. Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker 139
17. Escarpments, Agriculture, and the Historical Experience of Certainty in Manitoba and Ontario 159
18. Whatever Else Climate Change Is Freedom 175
19. Endangered Species, Endangered Spaces 193
20. What Should We Sacrifice for Bitumen? 211
21. Interlude 233
22. Propositions from Under Mill Creek Bridge 241
23. Understory Enduring the Sixth Mass Extinction, ca. 2009–11 259
24. Seeding Coordinates, Planting Memories 273
25. Re-envisioning Epic in Jon Whyte’s Rocky Mountain Poem The fells of brightness 289
26. Ware’s Waldo 303
27. Humming Along with the Bees 325
28. Bibliography 331
29. Contributors 349
30. Index 355
31. Books in the Environmental Humanities Series 368