The Lewis and Clark gang are back on their old stomping grounds! They live again to explore the Missouri River, Gates of the Mountains, Three Forks, Lemhi Pass, Lost Trail Pass, Lolo Trail, Clearwater River, Fort Clatsop and Fort Mandan. Follow this cartoon story in 35 weekly installments, and learn about some of the best places to canoe and hike on the Lewis and Clark Trail. Many places still resemble the beautiful wild landscape that Lewis and Clark described in their journals nearly 200 years ago.

Review

from American Rivers magazine, Spring 2002

Dean Norman's interest int the adventures of Lewis and Clark stems from a canoe trip he took on the Missouri River in Montana more than 30 years ago. A former cartoonist for Hallmark Cards and American Greetings, Norman has recently combined his interest in the explorers' historic expedition with his artistic talent in a pair of books that recreate the voyage of Lewis and Clark through hand-drawn comics.

Norman's latest book, On the Lewis and Clark Trail - Wally's Woods Vol. 2, is a modern-day journey with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark reincarnated as animals (a Canada goose and beaver, respectively). As the pair retraces their footsteps, they befriend numerous creatures, animal and human alike, just as the explorers did nearly 200 years ago. Norman's mix of history and humor is impeccable. He includes extremely specific details, demonstrating he's a true Lewis and Clark enthusiast. At the same time, Norman keeps the story fun and interesting for all readers, no matter how familiar they may be with the expedition. He even makes a point of commenting on the changes the Lewis and Clark trail has endured over the years.

The book also features a detailed history of the Plains Indians by Dakota Goodhouse, a historian and student who is also a native of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in Fort Yates, N.D.

Norman's ties to Lewis and Clark are not limited to his books. In the early 1970s, he worked on a Lewis and Clark television drama that was to have cast Fess Parker, who portrayed Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone in the 1950s. The show, however, never came to fruition as its would-be producer died. Norman has also traveled much of the Lewis and Clark trail in Montana and Idaho and studied ecology at University of Missouri-Kansas City and University of North Dakota. Norman currently resides in Cleveland.

Retail giants and other agents of urban sprawl have devastated small town character and have helped produce a new wave of interest in participatory planning. Using a compelling and dramatic local case-study, the book analyzes the politics of land-use planning at the end of the twentieth century and provides a timely practical and theoretical vehicle through which scholars, community activists and policymakers alike can understand the actual terrain and terms of contestation. In examining the step-by-step process of environmental impact assessment in a local context, the authors realistically assess as well the obstacles to meaningful participatory democracy within structures established by the logic of the present liberal capitalist order.

"Megamall on the Hudson details the drama of environmental and land-use politics in a case study that pitted commercial 'big box' developers against community activists and environmentalists. The authors weave together legal and political analysis, theory and practice, from an insider's perspective that illuminates the interplay of community organizing and development pressures, state environmental policies and legal tactics, media coverage and electoral politics, persistance and personality too. Students of environmental planning, land-use development, and democratic politics more generally will find the book richly rewarding for years to come." John Forester, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University and author of The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Processes and Planning in the Face of Power

"This is a Gothic tale of political intrigue: of whisperings, picket lines, and small town Machiavellians. Here the good old boy's network meets the dueling experts, the suited hucksters, and the world's largest retail corporation. There are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and legislation. Now add one more: land use decisions. Beneath the veneer of public process are the capricious circumstances of impenetrable, quirky judgments." Al Norman, editor of the Sprawl-Busters Alert newsletter and web site and author of Slam-Dunking Wal-Mart! How You Can Stop Superstore Sprawl in Your Home Town

No one kept the name of Grey Owl alive in the 1960's and 1970's more than his daughter Dawn. All her adult life she defended her father as did her mother, Anahareo, from those who underscored his contribution to the cause of conservation. She knew how timely his central message was: "You belong to Nature, not it to you".

In his book her husband Bob Richardson sensitively recounts the years of their relationship: their first meeting, marriage, and life together. In many ways it reads like a modern version of "Pilgrims of the Wild", Grey Owl's own account of his life with Anahareo, the story of a growing relationship.

Bob describes Dawn's tremendous personal strength in the face of poor health. At the age of nine she became seriously diabetic. For the first time it tells of Dawn's discovery in 1976 of Leonard Scott-Brown, her father's half-brother, then living in Vancouver, who became a second father to her. It recounts interesting stories of Dawn's and Bob's search of the meaning of Grey Owl and Anahareo, through trips to places where they lived in northern Canada in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Dawn helped me enormously over a fifteen year period with the preparation of my biography of her father, "From the Land of Shadows" (1990). Unfortunately she did not live to see it in print, as she died six years before it appeared. I loved reading Bob's account as it brought her back to life for me, this warm, intelligent, fun-loving woman, who recognized the enormous contribution of both her father and mother to conservation, and wanted the world to know it as well.

Donald Smith, Ph.D
Professor of History, University of Calgary

If you are interested in this book, you may also be interested in Son of An Orphan.

www.anahareo.ca

How to be Free in Today's World reveals insights and wisdom to get you out of the rut, relieve stress and get you reconnected to the freedom and happiness we all deserve.

You will discover how fear of change paralyzes us and causes depression and how imbalance is affecting the planet. How seeing the world and other cultures can improve your life, and what the most important thing is that humans possess that most of us never even think about.

This book is a "wake-up call" to those rushing around from task to task without a moment to think about what the point of their lives is. Susan Buck gives common sense and often unconventional advice, pointing out what freedom means and how we can get it back into our lives. This book will open your eyes, improve your health, touch your heart and change your life forever!

The reader is provided with some of the present day wildlife conservation practices and looks at and compares these with those in biblical times. The book identifies governmental agencies and private groups who are involved with this conservation effort. It also provides some information about the threats to sound wildlife conservation.

This book is written in easy to read language. It avoids the technical jargon which can often put a person to sleep. There are eight chapters along with 13 illustrations. Thirty-eight biblical texts are quoted and the reader is provided with 48 other biblical references if he desires to further examine what the bible has to say.

The present wildlife conservation practices are taken from 29 references listed in the book along with experiences while the author worked as a wildlife manager/biologist. The author has a total of 46 years working with wildlife and their living requirements.

If the reader desires to examine more closely today's wildlife conservation, six books are suggested for further reading.

The animal rights movement has had considerable press coverage in recent years. Some information is included regarding this movement.

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The endangered Leadbeater's Possum, once considered to be extinct, is the Victorian State faunal emblem. Shortly after its rediscovery in 1960, naturalist Des Hackett began his successful quest to breed the animal in captivity.

Bred To Be Wild documents the work of Des Hackett, including his struggle with wildlife authorities after handing over thriving colonies of Leadbeater's Possum to zoos throughout Australia.

While initially, breeding programs were a great success and Leadbeater's Possum were sent to other zoos throughout the world, they were never released into the wild. Breeding programs have since stopped and only two individuals remain alive in captivity today.

"With just two Leadbeater's Possum left in captivity in Australia, the publication of this book is very timely. It will provoke public debate about the future management of this endangered species while at the same time provide a fascinating insight to the behaviour of the Leadbeater's Possum. It is a good read too."

Sera Blair

President - Friends of the LeadbeaterÕs Possum Inc.

"Des Hackett worked tirelessly to provide zoos throughout the world with thriving colonies of Leadbeater's Possum. His dream, documented by this book, was to see his captive-bred Leadbeater's released into the wild. Unfortunately, the wild population is still on the decline as logging continues throughout much of their natural range and the species has become virtually extinct in captivity. We may have missed our opportunity to turn the tide of extinction for Victoria's State emblem."

David Swinson

Secretary - Upper Yarra Conservation Society

"This book questions the function of zoos in terms of conservation and exposes AustraliaÕs wildlife authorities as incompetent in terms of protecting our wildlife heritage. Would we allow this to happen to the panda or gorillas? When will we learn to truly appreciate our native wildlife?"

Maryland Wilson

President - Australian Wildlife Protection Council

Simple Life describes a rich outdoor life with simple means, a life experiment where we explore what has value in life, during our free time. Simple Life portrays an outdoor life with strong historical roots, one that holds promise for everyone. The inspiration for Simple Life by Roger Isberg, came from twenty-five years of experience working with traditional outdoor life ("friluftsliv") at Sjoviks Folk College in Sweden, where Roger was founder and mentor of the Simple Life - Leadership - Handcraft course, a two-year college program.

Simple Life is a translation and revised edition of Isberg's book, Fard, which was published in Sweden in 1991 and reprinted three times. Simple Life shows us a way to bring about a meeting with nature and between people. Such a meeting can demonstrate how a modern culture may rediscover harmony with itself and with nature.

Roger Isberg explains how experiences in nature can change our daily life. Meeting nature on it's own terms, we gain experiential knowledge of nature and people that can lead us toward a deep ecological view and lifestyle. The book is divided into three sections, which cover the concept of experiential knowledge, characteristics of nature and people, and people meeting nature. It also includes a history of the friluftsliv tradition in Scandinavia as well as of outdoor life in North America.

Further information about courses in simple life can be obtained by contacting Roger Isberg at Brookside School of Simple Life, PO Box 128, Jackson, NH, 03846, or r.isberg@verizon.net.

Humanity is on the brink of extinction because of our over dependency on petroleum to bring out food to our tables. As our use of oil has increased, so too has our world population along with oil's use. When oil supplies decline, and they are already starting to, we will be facing ever more hardship and challenges in supplying our tables with food.

This book addresses the need to take positive action immediately to minimize effects of declining oil supplies at the kitchen table level. It is a book about the possibility of survival in spite of the odds due to individual effort and community planning and support. It is an urgent request to take positive steps today in order to assure food supplies in the future and offset the drastic effects oil DEPLETION will have on our food supplies. It is a book of individual empowerment one kitchen table at a time.

Learning about Relationships: Metaphysical Exercises for Landscape Designers details the relationship exercises that Dr. Okajima has conducted with his landscape design students. The author also addresses the subject of spirituality within the academic environment. His book illustrates the interactive work he has done with his class, a way of design that allows the unexpected and the positive to occur. If we do not aggressively tackle the act of design, Dr. Okajima suggests, but instead we willingly wait for something more organic to grow, this creates room to expand meaning and possibility within that design. This, Dr. Okajima teaches, is the road to be traveled when seeking ecological balance. For the first time, and based upon his own teaching experiences, Dr. Okajima in Learning about Relationships: Metaphysical Exercises for Landscape Designers openly shares his teaching philosophy, along with specific classroom exercises

We are becoming increasingly aware that an ecological crisis threatens Earth and all life on Earth. Policies and programs are being developed to reverse this trend but, without a basic reconstruction of human attitudes to Earth, our best technological efforts will fail.

We have been trained to look upon Earth as open for unlimited exploration and exploitation so that humanity can secure vital resources for our existence. But it is now clear that Earth is not an object to be devoured by us. It is a living system that we must respect and listen to as our Teacher. We must learn to approach Earth as Sacred, as did our distant ancestors for countless generations. To foster this change, humans need to re-value their own spiritual nature and to understand that we can choose life as a journey to be made in response to the Presence of the Sacred in everything.

Each person can enter upon a "Sacred Journey" as the core reality of their life. This book explores our spiritual nature to understand the central characteristics of the journey and how it is integrated with the daily round of personal and social existence. To help illuminate our path, the experience of other people, past and present, is discussed. The central purpose of the book is to encourage a way of living that brings together the 'outside' and the 'inside' of life as a creative, responsible and joyful endeavour.

There is a reason that after 10,000 years, our culture is now unraveling—it has hit the wall. Every global crisis today shares one underlying cause—the story that perpetuates our culture, “the world belongs to man.” This story has lead us to overpopulation–overshoot, peak oil–peak everything, financial crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity crash, global warming, war, inequity, and distress. These crises are all happening at once and are symptoms of our modern cultural collapse.

We are witnessing birth of new cultures. Each culture will vary by its bioregional adaptation and expression, but all will share the original story that, "humanity belongs to the earth." The huge human population bubble will slowly deflate and we will finally be at peace with the earth and our fellow species. Find like minded people and go build a new world.

To find meaning in our world today, Culturequake integrates our history, a synthesis of current global crises, real long-term solutions, and a treasure trove of resources.

There is a reason that after 10,000 years, our culture is now unraveling—it has hit the wall. Every global crisis today shares one underlying cause—the story that perpetuates our culture, “the world belongs to man.” This story has lead us to overpopulation–overshoot, peak oil–peak everything, financial crisis, environmental degradation, biodiversity crash, global warming, war, inequity, and distress. These crises are all happening at once and are symptoms of our modern cultural collapse.

We are witnessing birth of new cultures. Each culture will vary by its bioregional adaptation and expression, but all will share the original story that, "humanity belongs to the earth." The huge human population bubble will slowly deflate and we will finally be at peace with the earth and our fellow species. Find like minded people and go build a new world.

To find meaning in our world today, Culturequake integrates our history, a synthesis of current global crises, real long-term solutions, and a treasure trove of resources.

The mistake of modern city layout is that no thought was given to an efficient road system. Our roads are an inheritance from the past when travel was limited. Self-propelled or by horsepower and the main reason for roads was to give access to private property. The up & down motion, the fight with gravity, when we wish to move horizontally, is what wastes energy. Horizontal movement is free - see Newton's laws of motion.

The Author has experience in Ice Age Climatology and Geology in the area from the Black Hills, South Dakota to eastern Nebraska with Midland College, the University of Nebraska Department of Geology and Morrill Hall State Museum of Paleontology. He mapped Ice Age deposited soils and landforms including fossil deposits. He performed Arctic Surveys with the US Navy Oceanographic Office ships USNS Dutton and Michelson and the Coast and Geodetic Survey ships Surveyor and Oceanographer. These were the first modern geophysical surveys in the North Sea and offshore Alaska, Washington to California and Hawaii. His particular expertise in modern geophysical surveying and mapping has led to well grounded understanding of coastal and sea floor features of the arctic and Antarctic, using new ice and sediment mapping techniques tied to modern navigation and positioning. His hobby is understanding man’s adaptability to climate, early migrations, exploration and appreciation of the Neolithic mind gaining man’s survival abilities. Adequate education of the public, including historic climate change information, for planet management seems necessary. The fact that 700 million years ago, earth was locked in ice cover for millions of years should be realized. Then vast volcanic eruptions created a greenhouse gas atmosphere and earth’s climate alternated between too hot and too cold for human development. These conditions should be understood and avoided at all costs. For future survival, humans must understand the importance of climate and earth management, and live and act accordingly.

Softly On This Earth is a collection of essays written by a diverse group of 32 people from around the United States and Canada. They are environmentalists, artists, musicians non-profit organization leaders, authors, activists and teachers. They come from all walks of life, yet they are all united by the choices they have made. Courageous choices that have helped make a difference in the world around them. All have acted from their hearts, and here, in the pages of this book, all have written from their hearts, telling the stories of what brought them along the paths they have chosen. They are all advocates for the environmental, social and ethical health of the world.

This book was written to inspire more people to make choices from their hearts, to know that their actions do make a difference and to know that, in their efforts to leave soft footprints, they are never walking alone.