More Constructions

Not a long post, just a quick follow up on my last post about nature as a social construction. The September issue of National Geographic had a nice piece on New York's Adirondack Park that provides a perfect example of this. With Verlyn Klinkenborg's focus on the park's history and the ways it has grown and healed the landscape while continuing to provide space for myriad uses makes the piece a wonderful focal point for further thought on ideas of nature and wilderness (read through it and the photo captions and maps and think about how and why those words are used). It doesn't hurt that it is accompanied by National Geographic's traditionally excellent photography either.