A Walk in the Woods
The U.S. Bureau of Mines brought in experts, who proposed any number of possible remedies--digging a deep trench through the tow ...
around the barrier and walked down old Highway 61. Clumps of weedy grass poked through the surface here and there, but it still ...
way back to the car I passed a public library and impulsively popped in to ask if they had any information on Centralia. They di ...
"That mountain. There isn't a scrap of vegetation on it." "I wouldn't know. I'm not paid to look at hillsides." "Well, you shoul ...
"Yes, sir," I indicated the pack on the backseat. "I just wanted directions and the next thing I know"--I gave a cheerfully dism ...
That the Appalachian Mountains present so much more modest an aspect today is because they have had so much time in which to wea ...
And as soon as the mountains were built, they began, just as ineluctably, to wear away. For all their seeming permanence, mounta ...
exposed quartzite is arrayed in long, wavery bands that lie at such an improbably canted angle--about 45 degrees--as to suggest ...
more. It occurred to me now that a great part of my mindless indifference to my surroundings earlier on was simply that I didn't ...
lakes of Canada, none of which existed to fuel the last ice sheet--so they would grow very much quicker. And if they did start t ...
was some warning. Even so, several small towns were washed away and eleven people lost their lives. But these were relatively sm ...
more interesting and rewarding if it wasn't all wilderness, if from time to time it purposely took you past grazing cows and til ...
It's not entirely beyond the realm of possibility that mountain lions could have survived undetected in New England. Bobcats-- a ...
birds from the sky with blind ease, the Carolina parakeet because it ate farmers' fruit and had a striking plumage that made a l ...
had not dropped out. Chicken John had it now--though I couldn't for the life of me recall why. It had been months before, way ba ...
We walked the last six miles together, but we didn't talk much after that. I was doing a nineteen-mile day, the longest I would ...
Greylock is certainly the most literary of Appalachian mountains. Herman Melville, living on a farm called Arrowhead on its west ...
a more profound change in just a century or so, at least not in a contrary direction to the normal course of progress. If you we ...
He noticed me watching and said, in a tone that suggested he was hoping someone would take an interest, "It's an Enviro Monitor. ...
could have joined their club. I asked him whether he felt it was safe for me to make a descent with solar radiation showing 18.5 ...
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