Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet – David Abram
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Natal River and the Pacific Salmon
The Bosque de la Paci National Wildlife Refuge is a sparsely wooded floodplain along the Rio Grande, at the northern edge of the Chihuahuan Desert. By this strip of moist bottomland, Piro Indians built their pueblos some seven centuries ago,. They hunted here and gathered wild fruit and raised turkeys until Apache raids and European diseases forced them to abandon these fertile soils. In recent times, the river has dwindled. Its waters drawn for use by industries further north. Right now and then it still floods these riparian fields, enabling local farmers to grow alfalfa and corn in the desert silence.
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