“And so, a lot of what I’ve done through my work is to try to keep that from happening.”Ītop Patrol Mountain, Samsara Duffey uses binoculars to survey her district, which is the size of Rhode Island. That incident shaped her sense of responsibility for her impact on the natural world: “I felt it was my fault,” she says, her voice cracking. “They were so comfortable around humans, the Fish, Wildlife, and Parks killed the sow, and the cubs were sent to a zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas,” says Ms. Morning light revealed their supplies strewn across the pine needles, torn by teeth and claws. The commotion of the bears discovering their packs woke mother and daughter, but in the dark night neither of them could see the animals. “We didn’t know when we arrived, but there were habituated grizzly bears in the area,” the fire spotter today explains, noting that the bears had become accustomed to humans and their food. The two had backpacked into Indian Point in The Bob the day before and hung their food packs high in the trees after dinner. The Monitor's View A great rethink on student debt It started with a grizzly encounterīears padded quietly across the forest floor near a tent where a 16-year-old Samsara and her mother slept. As the storm rolls east out of the mountains and onto the prairie, the strobe of cloud-to-cloud lightning above Haystack Butte brightens its dramatic pinnacle and steep sides for an instant.
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The sweep of that terrain comes into sharp focus as the battering gusts and fat rain on the trembling windows let up after only half an hour. And beyond that privilege is the joy of getting up every day and looking at this landscape.” “My duty is to try to interpret, report, and provide experiences for people where they understand that. The intrinsic value of wilderness is wilderness,” she says. “This place has a value in and of itself without humans.
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The veteran fire spotter demonstrates how to pinpoint the location of a fire with an Osborne fire finder.Īfter watching the American West burn summer after summer from her perch above tree line, she’s developed a complex view of environmental responsibility, informed by a palpable joy in the wilderness and ethical introspection on the interactions between the human and nonhuman
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