• Deer Medicine
    By Chris Clarke on 2009 10 14 at 2:49:30 pm | 7 comments

    “That is their medicine,” she said. “They offer themselves up.”

    She was speaking of hunting, and so I disregarded her words when they came to me, second-hand. Slob hunters are slob hunters, rednecks in the Adirondacks or wannabe-healers in

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  • Letters from the desert: Good news about the devastating Hackberry Fire
    By Chris Clarke on 2008 10 08 at 11:04:01 pm | 0 comments

    I took it upon myself to answer the implied question I posed here, about the existence — or lack thereof — of surviving piñon pines in the Mid-Hills.

    I drove up into the burn zone Tuesday for my first thorough look at the place. I’d been up there

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