Housing and Development Newsletter
Photographer-naturalist Chuck Graham’s Carizzo Plain Where the Mountains Meet the Grasslands contains splendid photographs and a thoughtfully succinct text accompanying them. I’ve visited the Carrizo many times. Generally my interest has lain with the incredible pictographs displayed at the vulva-shaped Carrizo rock. As one of our last large natural grasslands, the Carrizo needs additional protection against commercial interests.
A third book may seem off topic, but it’s not at all. Michaeleen Doucleff’s riveting Hunt, Gather, Parent follows what I call the “paleo-fad” thinking, but I subscribe to some paleo-thinking, too. Doucleff, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry, flipped out trying to raise her 3-year-old while working for NPR as a science reporter. The family lived in three areas outside the United States rural villages in Mexico, in Tanzania and in Canada and, of course, Doucleff observed very cool “paleo” ways of raisin