The field course returned safely from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The class visited Alum Cave, Clingman’s Dome and Cades Cove. Students took overnight trips to the spruce-fir forest and stayed in shelters on Mt. LeConte and at Ice Water Springs. The class also biked the Viriginia Creeper Trail, while sampling trail conditions and chlorophyll levels in plants. The group cooked together and make great grilled dishes. The classes studied forest ecology and trail and road ecology.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Book chapter on Rachel Carson published
Susan Bratton, 2008, Thinking like a mackeral: Rachel Carson’s Under the Sea-Wind as a source for a trans-ecotonal sea ethic, Ch. 5, pp. 79-93 in Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore, Rachel Carson: Legacy and Challenge, Albany: State University of New York Press, has been released in both a hard cover and a paperback edition, as of May 2008.