“Deserts are where people go when they’re thrown out of Paradise.” —poet-laureate George Bowering, on Okanagan grasslands   Climbing upward past cow pies and cattle-grates, past the ruins of century-old ranches, past desert arroyos full of yellowing aspen, past fading NO NATIONAL PARK signs, Kruger Mountains Road becomes an obscure, muffler-threatening, dirt track where antelope brush scrapes the vehicle’s doors and the ghost town of Nighthawk lies ahead. At a bluff where bunchgrass and sage yields to rock, ecologist Don […]

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