![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the impacts of a changing climate hit hard in the Southeast, where hurricanes wreaked what has become increasingly regular havoc on coastal communities, and in the western states, ablaze in a wildfire season unlike any other, with millions of acres of forest burning and hundreds of thousands of people ordered to evacuate their homes. It was a summer that had been uncomfortably busy in the mountains near where I live in New Hampshire, as people sought outdoor experiences within a day’s drive of their urban and suburban residences during the pandemic, some of them leaving behind heaps of trash, trail graffiti, and words carved into trees. ![]() I finished reading A Sand County Almanac – or re-reading it for the first time since my post-college, Colorado-living years – in the waning days of the summer of 2020. It seems apt – or perhaps ironic – that Aldo Leopold’s classic environmental tome was reissued this year in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. ![]()
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