by bill-youngs | Sep 14, 2023 | Fireside Talks
In History 453 we will often confront the question, “Just what is wilderness anyway”? You will notice that your instructor tends to “cast a wide net” to include many different kinds and degrees of wilderness. I sense wilderness sometimes...
by Brian O'Riley | Nov 18, 2022 | Fireside Talks
When I first arrived in Wadi Rum several years ago, I had only recently visited several of Utah’s storied national parks: Grand Escalante, Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Arches. Like those places Wadi Rum is a collection of rock formations in a desert. More of...
by bill-youngs | Nov 22, 2014 | Fireside Talks, National Park
Note: earlier on this quarter we had another visit to Taroko National Park in Taiwan, focusing on a local resident and a motor scooter. We will see them again in this post, but this is a larger post, telling us a lot more about the park. I wrote the original Talk,...
