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Season of the Loon
Camping with an Indian Pipe Holder, fending of a cabin-marauding red squirrel, and lobbying in Minnesota's Hundred-Year's War over federal lands are stopovers on one man's search for wilderness. From a boyhood infatuation with motorboats to a pro-wilderness adult perspective, the author traces the evolution of wilderness as a personal perspective, with a colorful cast of Northland characters offering their opinions on nature. Season of the Loon is an honest look at competing perspectives and the subcultures that provide them.
208 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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David Adams
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Adams spends as much time as possible in the Australian bush, honing survival skills, gold, treasure fossicking, and hunting feral animals throughout Australia. He served as an Officer in the Australian Army Reserve during the post-Vietnam era. Dave has trained alongside members of the United States Marine Corps and Special Air Services SAS personnel. Serving his last two years in the A.D.F as a Platoon Commander Military Police provided him with exposure to law enforcement working closely with his civilian counterparts in the Queensland Police Service. Dave relies on this real-life experience to provide him with authentic characters, settings, and a knowledge of military equipment and procedures. He continues to travel the world in search of exciting settings and characters that he hopes will transport his readers to these exotic places while adding a reality to his books.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Adams spends as much time as possible in the Australian bush, honing survival skills, gold, treasure fossicking, and hunting feral animals throughout Australia. He served as an Officer in the Australian Army Reserve during the post-Vietnam era. Dave has trained alongside members of the United States Marine Corps and Special Air Services SAS personnel. Serving his last two years in the A.D.F as a Platoon Commander Military Police provided him with exposure to law enforcement working closely with his civilian counterparts in the Queensland Police Service. Dave relies on this real-life experience to provide him with authentic characters, settings, and a knowledge of military equipment and procedures. He continues to travel the world in search of exciting settings and characters that he hopes will transport his readers to these exotic places while adding a reality to his books.
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August 12, 2012
In reading this book, I was surprised at the parallels to my own search for the meaning of wilderness and a relationship with nature.
At first, I wasn't sure where the story was going. The author begins by describing his run-ins with a squirrel in his cabin. That had me wondering if this would be another nature description book. Then I got rather turned off by the author's Unitarian bashing (since I am a Unitarian). But then the author got into his experiences as a fishing guide in Alaska and described his work in Washington DC as a wilderness lobbiest. I found those sections more relatable and amusing. The author explores questions like - where is the concept of wilderness in a crowded Wash. DC night club? Is it ethical to snag-catch salmon when they're spawning?
I worked for the Forest Service when the motorized portages issue arose in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It was fun to read about many of the wilderness advocates I know/knew and to hear the author's views on the so-called Conservationists with Common Sense. I had a few memorable experiences myself with that group.
Then the author turns his pen toward Ely, MN, writing about the likes of Jack Pine Bob, Charles Kuralt and Heart Warrior Chosa. I remember reading Chosa's editorials in the Ely paper. I often thought her prophecies of doom spelled a mind in need of a mental health professional.
That time (1995-6) was truly a colorful era and it wasn't until reading this book that I truly understood that time is now past. New players are in place and new young people are coming up in to the ranks and searching for their own definition of wilderness.
The author ends up not subscribing to any artifically defined or man-made version of wilderness. I've often wondered at my lack of desire to revisit the BWCAW and it could be that I feel the same way. The boundary waters is a politically/government-designated wilderness. People visit but do not remain. In some ways, that can be as artificial as Disneyland.
The older I get, the more I find myself believing that people can be part of wilderness, but unly under a certain mindset. I can get the spirit of nature and wilderness in many places. It doesn't take a special designation.
Overall, a great read for people interested in the wilderness concept and the battles that went on in the mid-1990s over the boundary waters.
At first, I wasn't sure where the story was going. The author begins by describing his run-ins with a squirrel in his cabin. That had me wondering if this would be another nature description book. Then I got rather turned off by the author's Unitarian bashing (since I am a Unitarian). But then the author got into his experiences as a fishing guide in Alaska and described his work in Washington DC as a wilderness lobbiest. I found those sections more relatable and amusing. The author explores questions like - where is the concept of wilderness in a crowded Wash. DC night club? Is it ethical to snag-catch salmon when they're spawning?
I worked for the Forest Service when the motorized portages issue arose in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It was fun to read about many of the wilderness advocates I know/knew and to hear the author's views on the so-called Conservationists with Common Sense. I had a few memorable experiences myself with that group.
Then the author turns his pen toward Ely, MN, writing about the likes of Jack Pine Bob, Charles Kuralt and Heart Warrior Chosa. I remember reading Chosa's editorials in the Ely paper. I often thought her prophecies of doom spelled a mind in need of a mental health professional.
That time (1995-6) was truly a colorful era and it wasn't until reading this book that I truly understood that time is now past. New players are in place and new young people are coming up in to the ranks and searching for their own definition of wilderness.
The author ends up not subscribing to any artifically defined or man-made version of wilderness. I've often wondered at my lack of desire to revisit the BWCAW and it could be that I feel the same way. The boundary waters is a politically/government-designated wilderness. People visit but do not remain. In some ways, that can be as artificial as Disneyland.
The older I get, the more I find myself believing that people can be part of wilderness, but unly under a certain mindset. I can get the spirit of nature and wilderness in many places. It doesn't take a special designation.
Overall, a great read for people interested in the wilderness concept and the battles that went on in the mid-1990s over the boundary waters.
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