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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

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Beauty and Airport Landscapes

January 21, 2019 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

In my transition from North America to Europe last week, my appetite for natural beauty was satisfied in unusual ways. On a flight from Charlotte North Carolina to Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, I found a channel on my seat-back monitor called “foggy running water.” Sure enough, I was able to hear and be soothed by a river’s […]

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Water in a dry land

December 30, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

I leave Topanga Canyon at dawn. When I pull over and step from the car, the call of birds litters the dimly lit scrub forest. Lights from the densely populated LA Basin twinkle in the distance. On the cusp of day and night; metropolis and canyon, nature is alive. I head north on I-5, climbing […]

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Landscape Under Fire

December 19, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

In the past few weeks, I have driven nearly the length of California. Not long after I crossed the Oregon border, I encountered the devastated landscape of the Delta Fire. Before the blaze was contained, it had consumed over 50,000 acres of Trinity National Forest. It burned so hot that highway guardrails melted. I drove […]

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Waves of Change

December 6, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Over the past year, I have worked with a talented filmmaker named Amy Allcock. Together, we have created a brief summary of my epic journey to rainforests across the west. Funded by a grant from the Columbia-Kootenay Cultural Alliance, this work has helped me develop a unique perspective on the changes underway. You can view […]

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Full Flowering and the Columbia River Treaty

June 10, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

The last time my life was as busy as it has been this spring was the year my second son came into the world. That sunny, damp day in mid-March 26 years ago set off a whirl of caregiving for family that only began to abate in 2002, when my first book emerged in the […]

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The ghost-presence of John Muir

February 21, 2018 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

John Muir is widely viewed as the father of the national park system in the United States. A conservationist, naturalist and writer in the late-nineteenth and early 20th centuries, he was most at home in places where trees outnumbered people. Muir is best-known for his successful effort to save Yosemite National Park from development, and […]

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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