writing from the field ✦
notes on land, ecology, and being in the world
Observations, questions, and reflections from fieldwork — Tanzania, New England, Chile, South Africa, & California.
What does it mean for a people to own land?
Sitting with questions from my scoping review on Maasai land tenure — and what Western ecological science keeps missing when it enters landscapes already held in relationship.
Camera traps and the patience of forests
On spending two winters setting camera traps across managed and unmanaged forest in Vermont and New Hampshire — and what the data does and doesn't say about mammal occupancy.
Melimoyu: the edge of the known world
Fieldwork in Chilean Patagonia — remote, wet, and extraordinary. First encounter with Darwin's frogs.
more coming
More field notes and reflections soon.