| Description |
1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
A bur oak book |
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Bur oak book.
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| Contents |
The View from Home -- Voyeur -- First Signs -- Lay of the Land -- Where Does Your Garden Grow? -- Five Ways of Seeing a Mountain Lion -- Love Letter to a Sewage Lagoon -- Reaping an Unexpected Harvest -- A Walk in the Park -- Modern Frontier -- Tyranny of the Visible -- Contemplating the Fire Seasons -- Weed Duty -- Horse Lessons -- Picking Up the Unexpected -- Winter Outlook -- Fourmile Postscript -- A Day with Nothing More Urgent than This -- Return -- My Life as a Weed |
| Summary |
With a calm, reasoned perspective on place, the author focuses on the familiar details of country life balanced by the larger responsibilities that come with living outside an urban boundary. Neither an environmental manifesto nor a prodevelopment defense, this book operates partly on a practical level, partly on a naturalist's level. The author reflects on life in two homes in the Colorado Rockies, first in Fourmile Canyon in the foothills west of Boulder, then near Cap Rock Ridge in central Colorado. Whether negotiating territory with a mountain lion, balancing her observations of the predatory nature of pygmy owls against her desire to protect a nest of nuthatches, working to reduce her property's vulnerability to wildfire while staying alert to its inherent risks during fire season, or decoding the distinct personalities of her horses, she advances the tradition of nature writing by acknowledging the effects of sprawl on a beloved landscape |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Country life -- Colorado
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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NATURE -- General.
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Climatology
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Country life
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| SUBJECT |
Colorado -- Climate.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028662
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| Subject |
Colorado
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609382124 |
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1609382129 |
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