Jun 15, 2021Fury to Publication: Decolonizing Conservation ScienceToday my paper got published in the Journal Conservation Biology. It has been a year-long process and I wanted to hop on here and tell the story of how me getting angry in class led to two publications. For the last class of my conservation biology course as part of…10 min read10 min read
Mar 2, 2021First Snow | Prometheus DreamingIt snows all day while I am at work, and I spy the shifting skies from my station next to the bakery’s wood oven. The long-awaited first snowfall of the year. The colors that pour in through the window change all day: grey, blue, yellow, white. It’s grey in the…6 min read6 min read
Jan 24, 2021Why is the homestead fantasy so common?I have this dream of having my own land, a garden, a couple of cows, some chickens, and just living a quiet life homesteading and writing. I think this is a pretty common dream. Most of us probably indulge in some variation of it. So many fieldworkers, accustomed to a…5 min read5 min read
Jan 23, 2021What is ecosystem stewardship without wilderness?There is some kind of betrayal I feel when deconstructing the term ‘wilderness’ and coming after transcendentalists for their role in reinforcing the human-nature divide. Wilderness was idea I’ve been chasing since forever. I love learning about the natural world. I spent my entire childhood in trees. When I went…4 min read4 min read
Jan 23, 2021How is “Wilderness” a Colonial Construct? — Organeyez“Wilderness” didn’t always have the same meaning that we understand it as today. In Europe, 250 years ago, the connotations of wilderness were very different. It was generally associated with areas that were barren, desolate, deserted, and generally a wasteland (1). In the Bible, people were banished into the wilderness…6 min read6 min read
