REFUGE: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF FAMILY AND PLACE DAFFODILS nineteenth-century Washington

nineteenth-century Washington

oven-baked

John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today—that much of California was pristine

including dog’s-tooth violets

but her pace is impressive nonetheless

REFUGE: AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF FAMILY AND PLACE DAFFODILS nineteenth-century WashingtonIn the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed