Mounds? Mounds, Everywhere!

Reflection on Terry Tempest Williams “Effigy Mounds National Monument” (2017) essay. In Tennessee there are four state archeological areas and one state archaeological park dedicated to protecting historical mounds within the state. The first one I was introduced to is the Mound Bottom State Archeological Area which is managed by Harpeth River State Park. A […]

partial HISTORY of Alaska

The Bering Land Bridge connected Alaska to Siberia 15,000 years ago. Animals of all shapes, sizes, and species crossed the bridge. Through the cold weather they traveled from Asia to America. This trip, not made by boat but by walking, was made by the first peoples in the Americas – as western science states. The […]

DOn’t be sad! Make dinner!

Terry Tempest Williams’ “Gulf Islands National Seashore” (2017) essay was a tough read. I vaguely remember the spill but never really cared about it or understood the impact of it while it was happening. Hearing about its effects on the gulf and its people is difficult, so instead of writing about that I will write […]

gettysburg National Military Park

Chloe Young In terms of my ideal career path in outdoor recreation, interpretation falls towards the lower end of interest. It is what I see myself doing the least of. I greatly appreciate and enjoy the interpretation industry, however. I know that it is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle to conservation […]

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

“A map is politics made visual.” -Terry Tempest Williams I have chosen to take my reflection for Terry’s Theodore Roosevelt NP essay a little literary. On page 66 Terry says, “Maps are politics made visual” (Williams, 2016, p.66). Here, I have created the Little Missouri National Wetlands with an assortment of colored strings tied to […]

Mother

A poem inspired by Terry Tempest Williams’ essay for Grand Teton National Park, featured in her Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, “The Hour of Land”. You were my mother You stood tall and wise You protected me You nurtured me You sang to me You’d even dance to comfort me during the high winds […]

Effigy Mounds

The chapter ‘Effigy Mounds’ in Terry Tempest Williams book “The Hour of Land” can, to me, be summed up with one quote. Terry finds out about a man who was stealing Native American artifacts and remains from a museum so that the museum would not have to give them back to the natives. The man […]

big oil? big problems

The issue of fracking in Theodore Roosevelt National Park as an interpretation of T. T. Williams’s (2017) The Hour of Land In Terry Tempest Williams’s (2017) The Hour of Land, she writes about her excursion to Theodore Roosevelt National Park back in 2016. She travels up to North Dakota with her father John and the […]

Land of verbs

By: Rocco Tedesco as Theodore Roosevelt Life has a peculiar way of telling you to do things. I live the life of a cowboy – life asked me if I could, and I got busy n’ figured it out. I arrived here a lost and broken man, but “I keep my eyes on the stars […]

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A poetic response to T.T. Williams’ “America’s National Parks” By: Rocco Tedesco As adolescents we have an intuition to frolic in the grasses, sing with the birds, and make ripples in puddles. We learn to be as integrated with the environment as the birds, bees, fish and trees – we root ourselves in the land […]