ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

Click the titles below to read some of the pieces I’ve written.

HUNTING

• “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.

• “Hunting Like a Vegetarian: Same Ethics, Different Flavors” (published as a chapter in Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life, part of Wiley-Blackwell’s series Philosophy for Everyone): Sixteen years after becoming a vegetarian, I shot my first deer through the heart.

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.