Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Preliminary Refl ections on Matters Environmental 18
6. Painted Lady 25
7. Who Lost the Limberlost? 25
8. The Silliest Debate 34
9. Cousins 35
10. Why Dogs Stopped Flying 46
11. How Science and the Public Can Lead to Better Decision Making in Earth System Management 47
12. Martha (1 September 1914) 59
13. What Is the L.A. River? 60
14. The River Blind 68
15. The Unexpected Environmentalist 69
16. Dermatophagoides 83
17. At Cloudy Pass 84
18. Trying Not to Lie 88
19. Tuttle Road 89
20. The Tarantula Hawk 102
21. Begin with a River 103
22. How to Train a Horse to Burn 114
23. The Natural West 115
24. Sheep 128
25. Separation Anxiety 129
26. Largest Living Organism on Earth 135
27. Going South 136
28. “Now the Sun Has Come to Earth” 147
29. The Pleiades 149
30. Scarlet Penstemon 163
31. Poetry Reading at the Tanner Conference 164
32. Common Cause in Common Voice 192
33. Notes 197