Here’s a link to my essay “John Burroughs and Yosemite” at the North American Review blog, just published. Thanks to Jeremy Schraffenberger, editor of this, the oldest literary magazine in the United States, for giving me the great honor of melding the subject of John Burroughs (who wrote many essays for the North American Review) with my own writings. Jeremy edited a new book MANIFOLD NATURE, which is a collection of the Burroughs essays for the North American Review. Jeremy provides an introduction to the book, as well as contextual summaries of each essay.
I just found out that the North American Review blog will be posting my essay along with eight photographs from Yosemite, all about the great natural history writer John Burroughs and his visit to Yosemite. The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in the United States, founded in 1815 in Boston. Thanks to Jeremy Schraffenberger, editor of the North American Review, for this great opportunity to share the beauty of Yosemite along with the story of Burroughs’s visit to that great location in 1909.
There were thousands of these birds flying toward Malibu today. According to bird expert Dan Cooper of LACoBirds Yahoo Group:
“I was there and these were Black-vented Shearwaters massing off Will Rogers State Beach. 100s or low 1000s. This is by far the most and largest number I’ve seen inshore so far this year, and it was amazing. Pelicans diving just a few meters offshore too. Spectacular.”
ENDANGERED SPECIES: FLORA AND FAUNA IN PERIL—Mr. Tekulsky’s photograph of a Willow Flycatcher is featured in this national museum tour that includes the Wildling Art Museum (June 22-September 14, 2008) and the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum (November 1, 2008-February 28, 2009)
