Nature, Culture, and Two Friends Talking 1985-2013

This book is in part the story of a friendship over thirty years centering on love of nature and two men's quests to understand how to save what they love. At turns literary and scholarly, these essays, poems and public presentations also document not only the evolution of their ideas and expressions of this love, but reflect American culture's own dialogue about nature and conservation. In heartfelt prose and vivid language, these two friends give back to us some thirty years of the environmental conservation in America.

Kim Alan Chapman has been working in  conservation biology for over thirty years; he is currently a consulting ecologist with Applied Ecological Services. He has worked on hundreds of projects in the Midwest that try to find the balance between conservation and development. He is the co-author and editor of Valley of Grass (North Star Press).  James Armstrong has been writing about nature and culture for thirty years. He is the author of two books of poetry, Monument in a Summer Hat (New Issues Press) and Blue Lash (Milkweed Press). He teaches poetry, film, and literature of the environment in the English Department at Winona State University.