Macfarlane understands that landscapes, even those miles below the earth’s surface, cannot help but be enmeshed with the political.

Dave Jones is a retired fishing guide who has lived in the Bitterrot Valley for over forty years. He writes fiction, essays and speeches when he is not fishing, attending meetings or visiting his grandchildren. His essay Big Enough Tent: Challenges of Inclusion and Unity was included in the anthology What Comes After Occupy? The Regional Politics of Resistance, edited by Todd A. Comer and published by Cambridge Scholars.
Macfarlane understands that landscapes, even those miles below the earth’s surface, cannot help but be enmeshed with the political.
The candid young guide was not pulling any punches. As he spoke of the devastating encroachment of invasive species, salt-water intrusion and the destruction wrought by the giant oil corporations, his love for this remarkable landscape was palpable, as was his sorrow over its slow demise.
The kind slave master recognizes that a well-fed slave, one with decent housing and a mattress, is always more productive.