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Duane Griffin ()
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Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 2016, vol. 6, issue 4, No 20, 783-787

Abstract: Abstract An abandoned beer can in Bear Meadows, a central Pennsylvania bog and state natural area, is a convenient focus for reflecting on “nature,” within the dualistic Western conception nature and humans, in natural history. I begin by considering the difficulty of writing the natural history of a highly humanized place, the Susquehanna watershed, then consider relationships between place, meaning, and nature from legal, environmental historical, and paleoecological perspectives on Bear Meadows and its surrounding landscapes. A more satisfying conceptualization comes from a topological model that makes it possible to map ourselves and our doings in relation to a gradient from wholly natural to highly artificial but preserves the insight that we and our artifacts are simultaneously of nature and fundamentally different from it.

Keywords: Nature; Anthropocene; Place; Natural history; Bear Meadows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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