The Strangler Fig and Other Tales Field Notes

Hood's travel memoir is a lyrical journey to places of great natural beauty and biological importance. Her stories reveal the vulnerability of natural places and the consequences of unsustainable exploitation. This inspiring work will be valuable for those interested in nature or travel memoirs, ethnographic writing, and for all who are concerned with the survival of our broader sense of place in the global environment.

Mary A. Hood taught microbiology and conducted research in microbial ecology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. She served as poet laureate for the West Florida - Pensacola region.

Preface

xi

Part I The Beginnings of an Ecological Ethics

CHAPTER 1 Louisiana: The Barge

3

(8)

Part II Some Last Great Places

South America: Introduction

11

(44)

CHAPTER 2 A Wilderness: Patagonia

13

(18)

CHAPTER 3 Highlands: Patagonia Revisite

31

(10)

CHAPTER 4 Drylands: The Atacama Desert

41

(14)

Central America and Mexico: Introduction

55

(22)

CHAPTER 5 Tropical Places: Costa Rica, the Yucatan. and Panama

57

Part III Nature as Connection

CHAPTER 6 Kinship with the Natural World: Mitchellsville Gorge Trail, New York

77

(5)

CHAPTER 7 Social Connections: Osprey Nature Trail, Iowa

82

(3)

CHAPTER 8 Belonging to Place: Life Birds, Vermont

85

(6)

Part IV Sanctuaries

CHAPTER 9 Private Lands: Vicksburg, Mississippi

91

(6)

CHAPTER 10 National Refuges: A Festival of Cranes, New Mexico

97

(4)

CHAPTER l1 Preserves: Prairies of Iowa and Louisiana

101

(8)

Part V Eco-Myths

CHAPTER 12 South Sea Island Paradise: Bali and Lombok, Indonesia

109

(8)

CHAPTER 13 Survival of the Fittest: Survival Camp in New Jersey

117

(4)

CHAPTER 14 Africa as Wilderness: Kenya and Tanzania

121

(12)

Part VI The Legacy of Corporatization

CHAPTER 15 Sprawl: Ft. McDowell in Arizona

133

(3)

CHAPTER 16 Impoverishment: Hudson Bay, Canada

136

(3)

CHAPTER 17 Extinction: In Praise of Trees, Washington

139

(9)

CHAPTER 18 More Extinction: A Pygmy Owl in Texas

148

(5)

Part VII Bioregionalism: The Ethics of "It All Begins and Ends at Home"

CHAPTER 19 Home as Region: A Southern Fringe, The Gulf Coast

153

(20)

CHAPTER 20 Home as Personal: The Home Place, Florida

173

(4)

Bibliography

177

(6)

Index

183

(10)

About the Author

193

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The Strangler Fig and Other Tales Field Notes of a Conservationist

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