Here is a link to a blog submission written by one of the best British Columbian writers (in my opinion) on being in-situ with nature: “Landscape Illiteracy.” In this blog, he critiques the ignorance of the mass entertainment media toward landscapes and locales. Gayton is a grassland ecologist with a remarkable ability to tap into metaphor and communicate science (especially ecology) to the rest of us. As such his work fosters understanding and connection to the land. In 2009, he was the Roderick Haig Brown Writer in Residence at UVIC.
Check out his books:
- The Wheatgrass Mechanism: Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape; 1991
- Landscapes of the Interior: Re-Explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit; 1996
- Kokanee: The Redfish and the Kootenay Bioregion; 2002
- Interwoven Wild: An Ecologist Loose in the Garden; 2008
- Okanagan Odyssey: Journeys through Terrain, Terroir and Culture; 2010
- Man Facing West; 2010
Also, listen to an interview on Kootenay CO-OP Radio from December 10, 2007 during which Gayton states that making science/technology “sing” to the average reader is “almost like sex, drugs, and rock and roll”! (Note that the second part of this broadcast is with biologist Dick Cannings who a few weeks ago gave an NRES Colloquial Series talk on the natural history of BC. Dick and his brother Sydney wrote British Columbia: A Natural History--a book not to be missed if you want to peer into the deep history of this "place" we call BC.)
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