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...Kindles) “The Collected emails, Myspace comments, Tweets, and online message board comments of Some Famous Author.”For those still holding out on me, here’s one last thing to think about: You’re sitting with your Kindle in a forest that you might have saved by buying your Kindle. You are near the end of a classic with a surprising ending—say Hemingway’s “A Farwell to Arms”—and just before the best (or, in this case...
...shadows of great apes ambling through trees glimpsed through a long camera lens. At Camp Leakey, you can pat, hug and hold hands with the animals. Even getting to the camp is an enchantment: you putter up river for hours on a local kelotok boat, and weave through rain forest. "We need to have more tourists visit in order to provide a livelihood for people," says Ferry Candra, a national-park guide. "Without them, locals will just go back into the forests as rubber farmers or loggers and the forests will continue to disappear...
...first 15 years of my life, the opposite was true: I ate meat, attended rodeos, and even occasionally went hunting in our family’s forest. A longtime vegetarian friend recently remembered that I teased her in middle school for her “rabbit diet” of fruit and vegetables. So what changed? In this, my last Crimson column, I would like to tell the story of how I became an animal advocate and explain why I believe history will judge our generation harshly based on our treatment of animals...
...Many resorts out West are leased from the National Forest Service, so if you venture out of bounds and have a crisis, the government bears that responsibility in collaboration with local search and rescue organizations. In Wyoming?s Teton County, home to Jackson Hole resort, the search and rescue crew works in conjunction with the county sheriff. Each year, they conduct an average of 70 rescues, according to Doug Meyer, the area's SAR coordinator. And even though most of the rescuers are volunteers, costs can still add up for equipment and resources - such as leasing a helicopter, and maintaining...
OUTDOORS Nobel Park, Ostermalm The park runs all along the water and has the most beautiful jogging tracks. Woodland Cemetery Really a forest designed by architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. You see rabbits and hares bounding around. Greta Garbo is buried there. Arenavagen 41 (08-508-301-00; skogskyrkogarden.se) Rosendal's Garden Biodynamic gardeners have turned the greenhouses into poetry. They have apple exhibitions and a café, and you can cut flowers. Rosendals-terrassen 12 (08-545-812-70; rosendalstradgard.se...