I spent a week during the past January break at the Harvard Forest, located in Petersham, Massachusetts, writing, drawing, exploring, and discussing ecology with nine other Harvard students as well as Harvard professors. Called Reading and Conserving New England, this optional Jterm activity was an incredible way to experience the life of an ecologist, a nature artist, a conservationist, and a poet, all in one, too-short week.
Here is a piece that I wrote after being part of an expedition into the Black Gum Swamp, crusted over with frost and snow on that wintry January day. We were on a mission to collect a sediment core and examine the history of the swamp by literally extracting a sample of earth out of the ground.
Here is a piece that I wrote after being part of an expedition into the Black Gum Swamp, crusted over with frost and snow on that wintry January day. We were on a mission to collect a sediment core and examine the history of the swamp by literally extracting a sample of earth out of the ground.
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