Cascade Mountain

reminded her of the times when she used to bring her three children along with her on her daily walks. She could clearly remember how they ran ahead of her, rolled around in the huge leave piles and collected odd rocks. Those thoughts turned into a cascade of wonderful memories from the past. Mrs. Raeburn remembered the very first time she met her husband, so many years ago. The year was 1987, she was still in high school. She had just started a part-time…

A Heinous Crime, Heinously Unpursued Jon Krakauer’s Missoula has shone a bright light on a dark sector of American law. The American legal system exists to protect American citizens from harmful or unlawful acts, and by most reasonable metrics, it accomplishes this goal. However, socio-legal scholars have noticed a peculiar phenomenon that has set in over a long period of time, where an especially egregious crime – rape – has continued to go under the radar, with its perpetrators going…

anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe” (Muir, 1911). For example, when looking at the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park it can be found that a minor change can lead to what is called a “trophic cascade”. The simple reintroduction of a small number of wolves changed not only the booming deer population, but the behavior of the deer. This change in behavior lead deer to avoid open areas, which were often over grazed open lands. By doing so,…

My journey with literacy has been a part of my life and began before I even entered school. During my early days you would say I was a “repeater”. I repeated things that I would hear from my parents and people that were around me all the time. Some of them were good to say and some not so good to say. My parents always sat down and read to me. While growing up as well my parents worked a lot so my grandparents basically raised me by watching me in the morning and taking me to two by two,…

In the early 1900’s, the loss of habitat and extermination programs led to the gray wolf’s demise. Wolves have once roamed all over the country. They’ve been nearly hunted to extinction with only 50 wolves left in the wild when Yellowstone National Park was young. Hunters back then thought they were helping the deer and elk by killing the wolf, its main predator. They were wrong. A 30 year project to restore the wolf population was made, and the wolves made an amazing recovery. The wolves are…

Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…