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Oc-tych
On their way to the pocked concrete of Oakland, California. About as far away from the Challis National Forest as it gets:
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Shrub-Steppe
I’m sweating out this post about biodiversity gradients, but can’t seem to get beyond big ungulates of the shrub-steppe tonight:
Migration
The great migrations. They are so absorbing – almost like a car wreck on the side of the highway. Why?
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The Mountain Institute
The Mountain Institute – West Virginia. We spent three weeks there, in the fall, staying in a little wooden yurt, migrating to a huge wooden yurt for meals and to hang with TMI staff. One of the best working-vacations (those … Continue reading
2′ Lidar
Here’s what a cherry picked candy-apple archaeological landscape map looks like. The notes are fluff, and a hard-nosed archaeologist would probably beat me up and stab me with a trowel over them. But I couldn’t resist posting this, because 2-foot … Continue reading
Megafauna
Sparsely narrated graphic vignettes – kind of inspired by Nikki McClure’s paper cuts… …ink nebulae x accidental forms = religion.
Crown of the Continent
Did you know our continent has a crown? Yup. It’s right here in Montana. I made these for a publication over the summer – with our berries, clear water, alluvial greenery. Rocky canyons choking on fleshy plumes of vegetation. I … Continue reading
The Elephants
There is something so carnal and satisfying about the shape of Pleistocene animals. I could draw these elephant-types all day and never get tired of them. Elephants, bison, moose, condor – they are living ghosts. Do they wander the lonely plains – … Continue reading
Poor Folk
Gut wrenching pains of poverty aside, I would’ve kicked ass at the great depression. Scrawled somewhere in my DNA is code for the scalding shade of empty oil drums and dirt caked on my skin like a melon rind: Of … Continue reading
Northern Rockies
The Sonoran Institute is my employer! Here’s geographic look at what we do out of our Northern Rockies office: Come visit us in Bozeman!
Upper Sea of Cortez – Geotourism
I made this map for the Mexican government as a part of their plans to increase touristic viability of the Upper Sea of Cortez and the Colorado River Delta. The map above is mostly cartography, but it serves as a … Continue reading
Motion
Most interesting things are in motion (or conspicuously ‘not in motion,’ I guess) – but capturing motion with a pencil is really hard. That’s why you see so many cartoons falling back on curved lines and banal symbols. For about a … Continue reading
