Oh, how the story of Eileen from your HCN piece stays with me. I remember being at an HCN event in Seattle and someone bringing their copy of the magazine to the gathering and saying, "More stories like this." The rest of us nodded in agreement. So evocative of how we can go be with place, be shaped by it, help form it, as well appreciate it and our own possibilities. I take pleasure knowing Cisco existed, that communities like it rise up in this world for a time. Thank you.
I'm still curious about the Steller's Jay and Cougar connection. My sense is forest ghosts don't like being announced by sentinel corvids. The next time I'm wandering the balsamroot slopes along the trails that connect into the Rendezvous system I'll remember to think about cat tracks in addition to migratory birds and the local coaches' training intervals.
Oh, how the story of Eileen from your HCN piece stays with me. I remember being at an HCN event in Seattle and someone bringing their copy of the magazine to the gathering and saying, "More stories like this." The rest of us nodded in agreement. So evocative of how we can go be with place, be shaped by it, help form it, as well appreciate it and our own possibilities. I take pleasure knowing Cisco existed, that communities like it rise up in this world for a time. Thank you.
I'm still curious about the Steller's Jay and Cougar connection. My sense is forest ghosts don't like being announced by sentinel corvids. The next time I'm wandering the balsamroot slopes along the trails that connect into the Rendezvous system I'll remember to think about cat tracks in addition to migratory birds and the local coaches' training intervals.
Lovely observation about the Steller's jays. The animals in the painting are recorded visitors to/beneficiaries of the remains of cougars' kills; Steller's jays are among those who reap the bounty. If I remember correctly, the list I used as a reference came from a study done in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by Mark Elbroch: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=Z-uQriQAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=Z-uQriQAAAAJ:eQOLeE2rZwMC