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Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition — A Narrative Slideshow
by Colin Donohue
 These ceremonial patterns reinforce the traditional Subak irrigation system — a complex, pulsed artificial ecosystem of rice paddies based around a water temple. Allocation of irrigation water is determined by the temple’s priest. The system not only provides environmental and agricultural stability, but also socioreligious consistency.
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Sky Islands of North America: A Globally Unique and Threatened Inland Archipelago
by Matt Skroch
 From atop a mountain peak in southeastern Arizona, one’s gaze falls upon a folded fabric of earth that strikes awe, resonates beauty, and hosts one of the most biologically diverse corners of the world. Neither desolate desert nor expanses of scrubland occur here.
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No Community is an Island: Tributary and the Young & the Restless
by Rick Mildner and Brian Canin
 The size of the Tributary site allows for a truly mixed-use master plan integrating and interconnecting a range of residential neighborhoods, a village center with boutique retailers, a town center for national retailers, a supermarket-anchored community center, and a park of commerce with mid-rise office buildings.
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Tourism Takes the Bird: Are Proposed Changes to Four Seasons Development Enough to Protect the Rare Grenada Dove?
by Dr. George Wallace
 A major resort development at Mt. Hartman National Park and Mt. Hartman Estate in Grenada threatens the largest and only viable population of the critically endangered Grenada dove, the national bird of Grenada. While the developers have made some significant improvements to the original resort plan, questions remain.
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Ocean Acidification: A Greater Threat than Global Warming or Overfishing?
by Dr. William G.C. Burns
 There is growing evidence that the gravest peril for ocean species may be posed by what Victoria Fabry of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory has termed “the other CO2 problem” — acidification of the world’s oceans as a consequence of the influx of carbon dioxide generated by human activities.
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The Villages of Loreto Bay
Baja California Sur, Mexico
 Located seven miles south of the town of Loreto in Baja California Sur, the Villages of Loreto Bay is an 8,000-acre new urbanist development that strives to be North America’s largest sustainable resort development. At buildout the $3 billion project will include village neighborhoods constructed in nine phases primarily along the protected Loreto Bay on the Sea of Cortés.
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Searching within the Archipelago
by Steve Kahn
Photos by John Hohl
 It was never about the killing. I was drawn to any occupation that would allow me to place my boot in the track of a brown bear, listen to the bellowing of rutting moose, or curl up at four thousand feet in a shallow depression still pungent with the aroma of sheep.
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St. Francis and the Isle of Foula
by Lynne Shapiro
 Every so often my thoughts turn to Foula, strange Foula, where St. Francis — patron saint of birds — visited me, though I didn’t recognize him at the time.
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Navajo Women: Doorway Between Traditional and Modern Life
by Betty Reid
Photos by Kenji Kawano
 Those words sealed Goldtooth’s fate to pursue a profession rare among Navajo women. She has become a medicine woman. They call her Hataałi Bitsií lichíí’, the Medicine Woman with the Red Hair.
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Land and Money
by William R. Stimson
 Until a few days back I’d never even heard of the dragon boat holiday and was still struggling to understand why a whole nation would celebrate the day some poet in ancient times committed suicide by jumping into a river.
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My Farmhouse in Japan: A Breakfast to Remember
by John Roderick
 Though I plainly saw how they felt, I could not believe that the Takishitas seriously thought I would want such a monstrously big, obviously unheatable, and darkly repelling structure as my home.
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 The Third Way
by Tamara Kaye Sellman
But tonight it’s eerily secluded over there. A fog has pulled in. I want to cheer. Cloak of darkness, cloak of fog, cloak of silence. Proper conditions on this lowest-tide night.
When the girls and I reach the bottom of the hill to the beach, other cars and people appear in the night’s opacity.
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 Pelicans
by Julian Hoffman
The pelicans had woken me at first light. They were fitfully feeding alongside cormorants in the lagoon. Each morning I had witnessed the same frenetic ritual of thrashing and churned water, a gossipy chattering and clapping of bills.
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 Her Best Interests
by Janet Yung
The first Monday of the new year, Edith Watson sat in the large communal living room where she stayed, trying to read the paper. Since she’d moved into the place the previous January, she’d never used the term “living.” That would definitely be a misnomer.
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 The Way Things Fall
by Richard Denoncourt
The wooden platform towered above the small shack as if it had sprung from the earth to keep vigil over us. On certain nights I stared out my window at the way the beams seemed to cut the moon into different shapes. The towering platform frightened me and I was able to sleep only after I remembered father's words.
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Author David Quammen
"I'm a crank on this subject: I also loathe the term "nature writing," or anyway loathe having it applied to what I do. What term, if any, does apply? I dunno. None that I'm fully comfortable with. I write nonfiction. Often on the subjects of evolutionary theory, field biology, ecology, and conservation. I also write sometimes about political history and travel. The underlying theme of much of what I do is: the yin and yang of landscape and human history."
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