Contents
Introduction 1
1 Bit, Mark W. Moffett 5
2 What Joe Loved, Mark W Moffett 12
3 Skunk Oil, Betsy L. Howell 14
4 Connections Are Everything, Ram Papish 26
5 Creeping Death, Howard Whiteman 29
6 In Big Fence Country, Michael Rogner 38
7 No Forwarding Address for Vernal Pools, Roy A Woodward 48
8 Running the Wind, Jennifer Bove’ 50
9 Swimming’ Hole, Wendell R. Haag 59
10 The Goat in the Galley, Chris Smith 60
11 A Fox’s Love Story, Ran Levy-Yamamori 68
12 Fire: A Prairie’s Own Companion, Alice Cascorbi 70
13 Road Hunter, David M. Liberty 76
14 Snares, Troy Davis 78
15 Pileated Woodpeckers, Patrick Loafman 84
16 Museum Sisters of Cheerful Disposition,
Barbara Blanchard DeWolfe 88
17 Up Trapper Creek, Jennifer Bove’ 90
18 Love in the Margin: Finding Refuge in the Blue Mountains,
Joseph L. Ebersole 97
19 The Clinch River Diner, Charles F. Saylor 104
20 The Science of Islands, Scott Stollery 107
21 Tigerland, Eric Dinerstein 110
22 A Mother’s Worst Nightmare, Tonya M. Haff 132
23 Potheads, Sharyn Hedrick 136
24 Gumbo, Lynn Sainsbury 142
25 La Yunga, Betsy L Howell 145
26 Rollie’s Catch, Chris Smith 156
27 The Gift Eagle, Dan Mulhern 159
28 Tequila, Patrick Loafman 167
29 Polar Summer, Cameron Walker 172
30 Booby, James Lazell 179
31 Sandhill Season, Jennifer Bove 182
32 Eating Crow (and Other Ways to Atone for Sins in the
Wilderness), Chris Smith 186
33 Chasing the Trail of a Frog, Elizabeth Dayton 189
34 Dances with Coyotes, John Shivik 201
35 Snapper’s Kiss, Jeff Beane 206
36 Whistling Dixie in the Land of the Midnight Sun,
Benton Taylor 208
37 Dependence Day, Jeff Beane 220
38 The Old Camp Coffee-Pot, Badger Clark 224
Acknowledgments 226
Contributors 227
