Word: wildernesse
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The recognition that the river is a finite resource has been slow to dawn in the West, where rugged individualists have traditionally cocked a snoot at natural restrictions, rolled up their sleeves and hacked or drilled the world of their dreams out of the wilderness. Something in the Western temperament...
ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND RECREATIONALISTS. Both groups were in shorter supply when the Colorado was being harnessed than they are today, and their concerns often diverge. A recreationalist's dream -- a motorboat rally on Lake Havasu, with plenty of beer -- is a nature lover's nightmare. But some vacationers come to the...
"Montana's legendary rivers and lakes offer anglers the opportunity to catch wild trout in a pristine environment," gushes the promotional copy on the state's 1990-91 tourist map. Certainly the instructions to photographer Steve Bly seemed clear enough: go forth into the wilderness and bring back a shot...
Similar grisly rites apparently took place at the 160-acre Texoma Hunting Wilderness owned by Charles B. ("Bart") Bartholomew, in Bryan County, Okla., about 100 miles northeast of Dallas. For roughly $8,000 each, hunters could stand in a fenced field where mountain lions, grizzly bears and other beasts were...
Like many New Yorkers, Sennett sometimes fails to put the city in context. Non-urban areas are blank spaces on his world map, merely waiting to be filled in by the encroaching grid. The city is never presented as an alternative location among many. Sennett's arguments would have been...