The Negative Space
A speech delivered at the 13th Northeastern Alpine Stewardship Gathering - Oct. 25, 2024, Bretton Woods, NH This is a sticker on a Jeep...
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Kevin Berend
Jun 2110 min read
Synchronicity
There are coincidences, then there are surreal experiences I can’t explain. Last week, before dawn, I had a dream. I was at Griffin’s...
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Kevin Berend
May 2713 min read
Radical Responses
Radical Responses: Climate Activism in the Post-Environmental Era A properly radical environmentalist position is in no way anti-human." ...
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Kevin Berend
Apr 286 min read
Stock Options
There is perhaps no industry more central to the Western identity than cattle ranching. Since the region was settled by whites, grazing...
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Kevin Berend
Mar 159 min read
This is the Place
It was summer of 1847, and Brigham Young had enough to worry about. As president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,...
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Kevin Berend
Feb 911 min read
A Leap in the Dark
F I R S T Q U A R T E R NASA : On the Moon, snow does not fall. Thunder never rolls. No clouds form in the pitch-black sky. This year I...
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Kevin Berend
Jan 39 min read
Monkey Mind
Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets, freedoms, and ways; who share with us their milk; self-complete, brave, and...
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Kevin Berend
Nov 25, 20238 min read
The Great Replacement
The tires of my Subaru crunch over gravel as I slow to a stop under a shady sugar maple. Stepping out into the warmth of late Sunday...
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Kevin Berend
Jul 27, 202314 min read
The Art of Walking
Flâneur (n.) [flah-nœr] An idler, lounger, or saunterer; A deliberately aimless pedestrian. April 2023 Santa Fe, New Mexico Day One Four...
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Kevin Berend
Jun 26, 20238 min read
Keeping the Life List
[A version of this article appeared in the Summer 2023 issue of Adirondac.] Every serious birder keeps a “life list,” a total count of...
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Kevin Berend
Mar 27, 20236 min read
Rocks & Rolls
As the raven flies, Moab is only one hundred twenty miles from Escalante, but there is no easy way to get here. Starting north over...
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Kevin Berend
Feb 23, 20237 min read
Course Correction
On September 26, 2022, a half-ton spacecraft 6.8 million miles away and traveling four miles per second slammed into an asteroid called...
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Kevin Berend
Jan 17, 20236 min read
The Water Bearer
At the end of June I'm driving east on Highway 12 with L, in the passenger seat, who works for another environmental nonprofit in town....
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Kevin Berend
Dec 3, 20225 min read
Think Responsibly
Win or lose, elections always end the same--drowned in booze. This November’s midterms were no different. Republicans, smelling blood,...
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Kevin Berend
Nov 6, 20228 min read
Iron County
It took a man to break and hold a homestead of 160 acres even in the subhumid zone. It took a superhuman to do it on the arid plains. It...
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Kevin Berend
Sep 30, 20225 min read
Future Tense
Asphalt sauna. The late summer blacktop of a generic office park in the sprawling outskirts of north Buffalo. My first time here. I had...
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Kevin Berend
Sep 6, 20226 min read
Prime Numbers
176 riders. Three weeks. The Tour de France is the most well-known and most prestigious bike race in the world. It has been held every...
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Kevin Berend
Jul 24, 202210 min read
Northbound: Climate Change and Rare Plant Conservation in the Appalachians
This article appeared in the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of Appalachia. Flowers in Concord, Massachusetts are opening about eighteen days...
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Kevin Berend
Jun 19, 20228 min read
This Land is Our Land
When the sun come shining, then I was strolling And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling The voice was chanting as the fog...
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Kevin Berend
May 1, 20226 min read
Throwing Shade
My office window looks south out onto the back lot of my apartment. Ringed by a wooden fence, the lot contains a small blue shed my...
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KEVIN BEREND
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