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Seasons of Stillwater revisited

One of my favorite places to visit and record in northern Nevada is Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, near Fallon.  It’s a collection of ponds, ditches, and marshes, where the Carson and a portion of the Truckee Rivers end.  It is such a critical oasis in the arid Great Basin that it’s part of the Western […]

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Canada geese on the Carson River

The dead-end river

River speech is a concatenation of murmurs and burbles, hisses and humming, snarls, chokes, whispered asides, and violent coughs.  The voice of mountain water is always many voices, blended like the roar of the crowd, and although even before you think about it you know you can never tease those myriad elements apart, you keen

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