The Work of the Interim

For the past several years, my days have been measured in hydrology levels, invasive species removal, and the slow cultivation of 200 acres of native Texas prairie. It is “grunt work” in the shadow of the space age—a tactile, muddy reality that requires a different kind of syntax than the office life I once knew.

But the land is also a language.

This site is a collection of field notes from that work, alongside a growing geography of the Michigan lake towns that wait at the end of this three-year horizon. It is a bridge between where the work is today and where the heart is headed—a study of how we manage the wild places, and how they, in turn, manage us.