#55 Around the Campfire; The “Antediluvian” Years of the National Forests
Sitting about an earlier Campfire, I spun the tale of how the great eastern forest
#54 Around the Campfire; The Buffalo Are Gone
Never seen a redder sunrise Never seen a sunset so black Men with guns along the
#53 Around the Campfire; Oh, Give Me Land: How the Public Lands Began
©2013 by Dave Foreman The United States has been the world’s leader in the on-the-ground
#52 Around the Campfire; Wilderness Areas and the “Myth(s) of the Frontier”
End of the Frontier It hit America like a grizzly’s slap across the cheeks.
#51 Around the Campfire; The Upshot of the Myth of Superabundance
I’ve written here before about my first forebears in the New World, how they came
#50 Around the Campfire; How Ranching Broke the West
I call the twenty or thirty years after the Civil War the “Killing Decades” as
#49 Around the Campfire; The 1964 Wilderness Act’s Four Definitions of Wilderness
In order to assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement
#48 Around the Campfire; Wilderness: Self-Willed Land
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape,