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An interview with Roger Thompson, author of NO WORD FOR WILDERNESS

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Roger Thompson is an award-winning nonfiction writer and director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University. A former wilderness canoe guide for a Minnesota camp and the founder and director of an environmental program in Banff, AB, he currently lives in New York with his wife and son. No Word for …

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Wild turkeys

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Earlier this fall, before the rain and snow arrived, I went to the park to read and looked up to find myself surrounded by wild turkeys. (Click here to see them chowing down not far from my picnic blanket.) I’ve seen them before, usually up on the hiking trails, so it was wonderful to find …

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