Assorted publications
FOOD AND HUNTING
- “Hunters Are People Too” (TheAtlantic.com, Feb 15, 2012): Watching hunters headed to the woods each autumn, I used to shake my head. As a vegan who abhorred violence and suffering, I wondered what possessed such people…
- “The Meaning of Meat: Adult-Onset Hunters Look to the Land for Sustenance” (Northern Woodlands, Winter 2011): As a teenager, Deborah Perkins found hunting repulsive…
- “Eating Animals” (TheAtlantic.com, Dec 20, 2011): Co-authored with vegetarian rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman and ex-vegan butcher Joshua Applestone
- “Meat and Meanings: Adult-Onset Hunters’ Cultural Discourses of the Hunt” (M.A. thesis, UMass-Amherst, September 2011)
- “Hunting Like a Vegetarian: Same Ethics, Different Flavors” (published as a chapter in Hunting—Philosophy for Everyone: In Search of the Wild Life)
- “Full Circle” (Outdoor America, Winter 2008): What does it mean to eat?
- “Life and Death” (Northern Woodlands, Winter 2006): Disrespectful hunting has its own lessons to teach.
CONSERVATION AND WILDLIFE
- “Country of Rivers: A Life’s Work”: At the age of 93, my great-uncle Al Buck was named a Hero of Conservation by Field & Stream (March 2010). In tribute to him, I posted this essay, along with a brief blog post.
- “Good Year, Bad Year: Ruffed Grouse Populations Ride a Roller Coaster” (Northern Woodlands, Autumn 2006): In the Northeast, why are grouse thick as black flies one year, and rare as hen’s teeth the next?
- “Whitetails: The Ever Changing Challenge” (Massachusetts Wildlife, Winter 2006): In Massachusetts and Vermont, how many deer are enough? How many are too many?
FORESTRY AND LOGGING
- “Family Business: Father, Son, Mother, Daughter Log Together” (Northern Woodlands, Autumn 2007): A father’s snowmobile accident puts a young woman in the cab of her family’s 15-ton skidder.
- “Where the Trees Grow Tall and Straight” (Northern Woodlands, Winter 2007): Where do you go to find the best hardwoods in the Northeast?
- “Certification Comes to Family Forests” (Northern Woodlands, Spring 2009): More and more private landowners are joining third-party certification systems originally designed with industrial logging in mind.
