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...these particular 100 acres this spring, I am unable to find any certain tracks. The forest rings with health: soft, undisturbed duff underfoot, soil of the centuries carpeted with trillium, wild violets, mushrooms, lupine, ancient lichens and mosses--an outrageous diversity that is so rare elsewhere in the West. Like some lost explorer, I make little maps on scraps of paper about what I find, and I wonder what the future will bring. In Backtracking, Long quotes a wildlife biologist on the future of the bear in Montana: "Eighty years ago, there were grizzlies leaving their tracks on the beaches...
...Overall, Harvard’s model for socially responsible investing and openness is an industry leader, says Simon C. Billenness, a senior analyst at Trillium, the nation’s largest socially responsible investment firm...
Relieved of this worry, Stankard began producing a profusion of wild-flower paperweights: painted Trillium, black-eyed Susan, loosestrife, lady's slipper and prickly pear cactus. Sometimes they were shown in their entire life cycle: bud, blossom and seedpod on a single stem. Sometimes their root systems were shown beneath the earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey...
...Trillium. This bulbous tent sleeps six and consists of three lobes, each with its own entrance, joined in a central "common room." The Trillium weighs 13 lbs. and, like the Eave tents, is freestanding, which means it can be moved while assembled. Cost...
Behind him straggled a collection of other hikers, both natural and synthetic, such as had seldom been seen together since the invention of the safety bicycle put an end to the Sunday trillium hunt. Editorial Writers Merlo Pusey and Robert Estabrook of the Washington Post (which advocates building a parkway along the canal) were almost lost in the throng. In the nine weeks since Justice Douglas (who wants the canal area left undefiled) challenged the Post editors to take the hike with him (TIME, Feb. I) and thus see the error of their ways, all sorts of volunteers had joined...
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