Selected Essays: A Kerasote Reader

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DOGS:

"Dogs Like Us" (The New York Times, February 13, 2006)

"Mad Dogs" (The New York Times, August 27, 2006)

WILDLIFE and NATURE:

"Borders Without Fences" (The New York Times, February 24, 2007)

"A Killing At Dawn" (The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001): A mother elk displays the full range of "human" emotions after losing her calf to a pack of wolves.

"The Untouchable Wild" (Audubon, September/October 1999): Are today's eco-trips really better for Africa's habitat than the shooting parties of Hemingway's era?

"They Kill Elephants Don't They" (Salon.com - December, 2004): A plan to kill 25,000 elephants a year -- with trophy hunters doing some of the shooting -- has divided African wildlife experts and revived old charges of colonialism.

"Logging" (The Nature of Nature, 1994): Cutting lodgepoles for one's house means listening to the trees.

SKIING:

"A Thin White Line" (Outside, April 2003): The Durand Glacier avalanche and the agony of a grieving guide who led seven clients to their deaths.

"The Man in Red and The Woman in Blue" (Outside, December 1991): The craziest things go through a man's mind when he races the 50-kilometer-long Yellowstone Rendezvous Nordic Ski Race.

"By The Grace of Snow" (Jackson Hole, Winter 2000-2001): A last dump of powder can save those afflicted with Reverse SAD from going into terminal spring depression.

HUNTING and FISHING:

"Three Long Seconds" (Bugle, March-April 1999): In hunting, as in life, true boldness sometimes means doing absolutely nothing.

"Restoring the Older Knowledge" (Orion, Winter 1996): How Americans might bring kindness and thoughtfulness to hunting.

"Catch and Deny" (Heart of Home, 2003): Is catch-and-release fishing really ethical?

TIBET:

"Tibetan Murder Mystery" (Legal Affairs, May/June 2003): Why the Dalai Lama's push to modernize his nation cost a venerable lama his life.