“And the words that are used for to get the ship confused will not be understood as they’re spoken. For the chains of the sea will have busted in the night and be buried at the bottom of the ocean. A song will lift as the mainsail shifts. And the boat drifts out to the shoreline. And…
A population of black seabirds, later called “guillemots,” survived the last Ice Age near the North Pole by fishing the cracks that opened and closed in the ice. Throughout the year, these birds dove for arctic cod beneath the ice. Today, black guillemots are challenged by shrinking pack ice reduced due to global warming. With…
For me the concept of a National Ocean Policy dates back to the mid 1980s and Charles H. W. Foster’s book Experiments in Bioregionalism. In Massachusetts, Foster understood, as did Charles Eliot before him, that natural resource management had to occur in transboundary settings. Think ecosystem as defined by natural boarders. The problem was managers…
