Between Urban and Wild: Reflections from Colorado

196 Pages·2013·1.428 MB·English

by  Andrea M. Jones

BETWEEN
URBAN and WILD
A Bur OAk BOOk
Holly Carver, series editor
BETWEEN
URBAN and WILD
Reflections from Colorado
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ANDREA M. JONES
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright © 2013 by Andrea M. Jones
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LCCN: 2013933618
ISBN-13: 978-1-60938-187-5
ISBN-10: 1-60938-187-4
This one’s for you, Dad.

CONTENTS
The View from Home . . . 1
Voyeur . . . 14
First Signs . . . 22
Lay of the Land . . . 25
Where Does Your Garden Grow? . . . 39
Five Ways of Seeing a Mountain Lion . . . 42
Love Letter to a Sewage Lagoon . . . 47
Reaping an Unexpected Harvest . . . 53
A Walk in the Park . . . 57
Modern Frontier . . . 77
Tyranny of the Visible . . . 84
Contemplating the Fire Seasons . . . 99
Weed Duty . . . 103
Horse Lessons . . . 109
Picking Up the Unexpected . . . 131
Winter Outlook . . . 134
Fourmile Postscript . . . 142
A Day with Nothing More Urgent than This . . . 158
Return . . . 161
My Life as a Weed . . . 175
Acknowledgments . . . 185
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BETWEEN
URBAN and WILD