Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 1:14PM 
Sitting outside, on a little hill, overlooking Yale campus and the Kline Science buildings, on a beautful spring day. Eating my lunch (Monterey Jack cheese and lettuce on whole wheat sandwich and a few apple slices) while students take the Indigenous Silviculture (F&ES 471b) final exam. First time I've had a picnic all year. [NOTE: The building in the background is the Kline Chemistry Laboratory].
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 10:11AM 
Gave the final exam in my indigenous silviculture class (F&ES 741b; Introduction to Indigenous Silviculture: Ecology, Livelihoods, and Policy) yesterday. The students took me out to lunch and gave me some wonderful gifts (thx, guys), one of which was the striking image above of a Lacandon Maya planting his recently burned swidden. The fog, the robe, the charred stump, the planting stick. The cigar. I love this picture. All I have to do now is grade all the exams and papers and post the grades. By next week. [NOTE: Image by Micaela Guirk, 1987.]
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