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The secret knowledge of water: A geography of water in American deserts
The action of water defines the shape of the desert landscape and the dynamics of desert ecology. The first part of this thesis is a creative nonfiction work that poses the hypothesis that the presence and absence of water is the primary biotic and abiotic influence in American deserts. This section is written for a general reading audience and is not intended to be a scholarly document. The second section of the thesis consists of cited data supporting the hypothesis. This \"notes\" section includes my own primary field research and transcripts of interviews with other researchers, as well as a thorough review of existing literature. Aquatic and stream ecology, species migration and dispersal mechanisms, climatic dynamics, and fluvial geomorphology are used to illuminate the physical and ecological properties and processes of water in arid regions.
Dissertation
Assessing the Ruins: Environmental Protection Agency veterans look for the agency's soul amid the relics of ancient cultures
[Bill Gillespie] runs the Office of Strategic Integration, which he hopes will turn the EPA into a bad-guy database, uncovering industrial environmental criminals. The group's job is to identify inspection targets, blow the whistle and lead the way for enforcement to follow. They recently nabbed a Conoco refinery as if it were an undercover sting operation. The number of corporations they haven't caught yet is staggering. He says it's an allocation problem. \"You could scrape away 50 percent of the government jobs and America would be just fine,\" Gillespie says. \"Most people in government actually think they're serving a meaningful purpose, and that's what's scary. Instead of doing whatever it is we need to do, government is usually doing nothing but increasing its staffing and budget.\" Gillespie joined early, with [DON PATTON FALLS] in Washington. He swapped a Defense Department position for an enforcement job with the EPA. \"When we hit a juncture and started working in grants and subsidies we made a big mistake. We should be strictly an enforcement branch. If you're doing something illegal we should have the jurisdiction to go in and slap the cuffs on you and take you to court, not help you out with a grant. The EPA has 100 people working nationwide in criminal investigations and 18,000 doing other stuff. I'm sure most of them can't figure out what they're doing. Can you imagine if we had 18,000 working in enforcement?\" \"No, really. This is a second wave of environmental enlightenment.\" [Jack Bowles] smiles, fighting off the wave from [DENNIS MARKER]. \"The EPA is a good organization. It's the most effective environmental organization in the world.\" He pauses. \"Although there's nothing to compare it to.\"
Magazine Article
LEAVING THINGS BEHIND
AMONG A THOUSAND STONES, all of a thousand colors and shapes: one piece of orange chert. Its tip had once been chiseled, the sides had once been cut to razor sharpness, and the base was made to be secured to an arrow's shaft. The arrowhead lay in a flowing creek in Muley Twist Canyon, down a twenty-five-mile dirt road and two days by foot into Utah's Capitol Reef National Park.
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On the river
An 800-mile canoe trip on the Yukon River in the tundra of the Yukon Territory is described. It is an immense area that gives an almost physical feeling of isolation.
Magazine Article
FIELD NOTES
MANY CHOICES REMAIN TO BE MADE after you have made the first one. Now climb. If a dryfall is impassable, then backtrack a hundred yards, or maybe a mile. You will find a slope-- something you can dig your fingernails into, at least, to hoist your body up.
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