‘Tis!

Also excited for this, in Vancouver, on June 18th.

writersfest.bc.ca/event/robert...

Thanks for this! Super helpful.

Having trouble finding sources that break the data down this way. But (assuming I’m not misreading you) the idea that our cozy little woodstoves are, in the aggregate, emitting more CO2 each year than all our power plants is deeply disturbing.

“If this had been our tradition all along….those forests would now cover roughly one million acres, an area larger than Yosemite. A burial would cost less, it would feel better, and people would develop a deeper emotional relationship with wild land."

Have you ever run across this essay by Greif? Covers similar ground—what is the point of this lifelong pursuit of shiny experiences, often far from home?—but it goes a few steps deeper. (I re-read it once every few years.)

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-2/essa...

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-5/essa...

I put together a list of outdoor/enviro writers when I first migrated here. Might be of some use…

go.bsky.app/5Z65eat

Makes me wonder what kind of book McPhee would have produced had he spent months with Newashish, rather than Vaillancourt, in writing Survival of the Birch Bark Canoe.

One can only imagine what else he had to teach….