With all of this devastation, you might think that nothing could grow back or that if it did, it took a very long time, perhaps waiting until the next spring. We did still have black hillsides even a year after the fire. But, amazingly, within one week of the fire, we had new growth Read More
Category: Ways of Knowing
The Canyon Hike Series, Part 3
The ranch where Tapestry was located in Nebraska was not your ordinary working ranch. We didn’t have any cows, for example. We had personal animals, wild Mustangs and wild buffalo. Thanks to the help of local people, we were able to evacuate our domestic and gentled horses the day we were evacuated from the ranch Read More
The Canyon Hike Series, Part 2
When we moved to the canyon, we knew the forest was overgrown. It had many dog-hair thickets – trees growing so close together that they become very thin and tall. The thickets were created by logging done over the years and from overgrazing by cattle. We knew we would have to thin the forest, but Read More
The Canyon Hike Series, Part 1
The landscape after a wildfire like the one we had is very interesting. It’s very quiet because all of the animals have moved to safer ground or, sadly, been consumed by the fire. It’s very ashy and very black. The smell is overwhelming – a combination of lingering smoke from the fire that is still Read More
The Canyon Hikes Series, Introduction
From 2004 to 2007, Tapestry was based at a ranch on the Pine Ridge of northwestern Nebraska. It was our land base, and we held meetings and workshops there. In the summer of 2006, a catastrophic wildfire burned through the canyon. While our houses were left intact, we were forced to leave the ranch in Read More