A personal newsletter of essays on wild and marginal landscapes, from Staten Island's Freshkills park to paddling creeks near the San Francisco Bay and the Texas Rio Grande delta. Each issue blends place-based observation with reflection on urban sprawl, ecology and the political and technological forces reshaping these places.
Website: https://fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com
Personal essays on wildlife, plants and wild places, written by a naturalist from Vermont with a focus on the practice of noticing. Recent issues cover AI's intrusion into nature writing, autumn foliage and small botanical details like purple holly petioles.
Southlands is a magazine-style newsletter publishing literary essays, author interviews and dispatches about life, nature and travel in the American South. Readers get long-form personal writing, book recommendations and updates on the print magazine, with some stories behind a paywall.
A newsletter by an environmental historian reflecting on wilderness, national parks, and conservation history through essays, travel writing, and historical narrative. Readers get thoughtful, well-sourced pieces linking places like Yosemite and Bears Ears to broader questions of memory, politics, and love of nature.
A farmer in northeast Missouri writes lyrical, place-based essays on the agrarian year, covering local ecology, land history, folklore and the work of raising food. Readers get vivid seasonal observation mixed with historical sources and reflection on land use, fire and rivers.
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