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Conservation

Book Review: COYOTE AMERICA by Dan Flores

December 3, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores is excellent reading, especially for those of us who’ve shared our landscapes with these magnificent creatures. Flores’s knowledge of the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Basic Books, Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction

The Creative Lives of Animals: Understanding the artists around us

November 25, 2022 by John Yunker

Creativity is something that is easier to identify than to explain. And one person’s definition of creativity may vary from your definition. For proof, you need only enter the modern …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, New York University Press, Nonfiction, What we're reading

Fuzz, When Nature Breaks the Law

November 13, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

By Mary Roach W. W. Norton & Co, 2021 Review by JoeAnn Hart “Like a deer in the headlights,” we say about someone who freezes in the face of impending …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction, Trees, W. W. Norton & Company, Wolves

Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

August 18, 2022 by Melissa Dennihy

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a powerful collection of ecopoetry that forefronts the interconnectedness of humans, animals, land, and water. Throughout, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Poetry, Pollution

A new environmental journal Springs to life

August 14, 2022 by John Yunker

As a fan of the Rachel Carson Center I was excited to see the recent launch of the first edition of Springs, their new environmental journal: The Rachel Carson Center (RCC) is …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, For Writers, History, Journals and Magazines, Oceans, Oil, Plants, Pollution, Rewilding, Sustainability, What we're reading

Halcyon Journey: Searching for Kingfishers

June 30, 2022June 28, 2022 by John Yunker

Kingfishers are birds more often heard than seen. Walk next to Bear Creek here in the Rogue Valley and you will probably hear them, though seeing them is not so …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oregon State University Press

Understories Writers’ Workshop is now taking applications

May 7, 2022 by John Yunker

Before you read further, please note that this opportunity is intended for scholars and educators in Environmental Humanities. I’m not but, reading this, I wish I was… The University of …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Residency, Writing Opportunities

EcoLit Books Roundup

April 24, 2022 by John Yunker

There is only so much time to read all the amazing books we receive here at EcoLit Books. So I wanted to at least mention a few titles in our …

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Categories Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Gardening

Book Review: The Insect Crisis

March 5, 2022 by John Yunker

The subtitle of the must-read book The Insect Crisis by Oliver Milman is The Fall of the Tiny Empires that Run the World. Tiny empires indeed. Consider the following: Three …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Gardening, Insects, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability, What we're reading

Residency opportunities for writers in Iowa, Oregon and New Mexico

March 14, 2022February 13, 2022 by John Yunker

We’ve mentioned these amazing residencies in the past but deadlines are coming up for the year ahead and I wanted to mention them again — also since I suspect many …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, For Writers, Residency, Writing Opportunities
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