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...EDWARD HOAGLAND...
...fascination with wildness seems to grow stronger. The dream of a crew-cut lawn has now grown into a yearning for shaggy acres and a pileated woodpecker of one's own. People may even be having hallucinations about the wilds. In his latest collection of essays, Edward Hoagland, a Harvard graduate who has spent a lot of time in some of the remotest, greenest places in North America, writes that men still claim to have sightings of the mountain lion, or puma, a species just this side of extinction. Hoagland thinks he saw one in the Alberta Rockies. Whether...
...Hoagland, a 40-year-old New Yorker with 100 unposted acres in Vermont and one of the finest prose styles in any state, thinks that people have rights to untrammeled nature in the same way they have to religious freedom. Enjoyment means some trammeling, however, and at times Hoagland seems almost apologetic that his body must accompany his senses into the wilderness. He is a "nonconsumptive" user of the forest, a man with exceptional powers of observation, reflection and appreciation. He neither hunts nor fishes but takes long solitary hikes and prefers conversing with old farmers, trappers and woodsmen "rather...
Because he stutters badly, Hoagland does most of the listening. He greatly admires self-reliance and know-how: the man who minces lead pipe to make his own buckshot and carries bottle caps filled with wax to kindle his fire on wet nights, the man who keeps his canoe upright in the rapids and knows which ferns to eat for breakfast. No historical fact or weathered detail seems insignificant in Hoagland's descriptions of worlds that are fading fast. Moose hearts as big as cannon balls and bears that love to eat the Day-Glo paint off trail markers...
...HOAGLAND REPLIED THAT FILM IS NOT DYING, that small producers are flourishing while large studios go under. Film is also developing into an art form accessible to many people, he said, and further innovations such as sound-synchronized super-eight film, and video cassettes, will make it available to even more. As for the Film School-Production Company symbiosis, it cut costs of both learning and producing by sharing equipment, using the time of skilled film professionals fully, and letting advanced students participate in commercial film-making...