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In Praise of Good Neighbours and Friends

July 14, 2022

Wild Lands Advocate article by: Gord Petersen, 2015 AWA Wilderness and Wildlife Defender

Click here for a pdf version of the article.

Apparently the last one didn’t make it. All summer, my wife Cathy and I watched a pair of Swainson’s hawks raise their brood. From little balls of not-particularly-attractive fuzz, to squabbling nest mates, to gangly adolescents exercising their wings in a space that suddenly seemed far too small, we watched as the three youngsters grew.

We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
- Wallace Stegner
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