Evan Cantor’s illustration for Doug Scott’s article about “untrammeled wilderness character” in Wild Earth, the magazine of the Wildlands Project, showing a landscape aesthetic similar to Chinese art. To what extent is American understanding of wilderness sourced in Chinese culture, as well as Thoreau, Muir and Robert Marshall? What ambiguities and conflicts does that imply?
Bristlecone pine, Lost Creek Wilderness Area, Colorado, scratchboard by Evan Cantor, from “Untrammeled, “Wilderness Character,”
and the Challenges of
Wilderness Preservation by Douglas W. Scott, Wild Earth, Fall-Winter 2001-2002, http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CDQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wilderness.net%2Ftoolboxes%2Fdocuments%2Fawareness%2FDoug%2520Scott%2520-Untrammeled-Wilderness%2520Character_article.pdf&ei=3bz2UeKoPOOsigKplYCoAg&usg=AFQjCNGwt_YE7usAOQiXIPFllKTNNSLntA&sig2=f2bwWWec9DY0LGgaupe2UQ&bvm=bv.49967636,d.cGE
Living on Unstable Ground 
