| Location | Council of Three Fires Treaty Land |
| Discord | Chase#8034 |
I have a limited run of free mini comics for @SER_MWGL which includes new comics I’ve never posted!
The only price? You gotta come see my 8:20 am talk on Saturday!
I’ll be talking about our adventures with native lawn alternatives
8:20 – 9:40 am.
Lower Level, Breakout Area 1
The genuine academic relief when a book is helpful, adjacent to your subject, but has a big ole gap in it's coverage that puzzle pieces into your work!!
Good book for personal accounts of western prairie fire in settlement era, decent coverage of settler accounts of Native fire, and a real vague and incomplete gloss of the development of Western Science(tm) Fire Science(tm). Which is GREAT cause that's one of my diss chapters!
Today I'm working early 20th century publications on #GoodFire or intentionally setting fire for the maintenance of ecosystems. Settler attitudes toward #RxFire changed a lot over the settlement of IL/WI and pinning down the moment it became western-scientifically confirmed as "good" is fuzzy.
At a minimum, Leopold was 100% team fire by 1942
trying to loosen up with cheap markers and notecards. sketching with a timer and cheap tools is a good way to just generate images to then build a story from
Revisiting tumblr after a number of years of neglect is funny. TIme doesn't exist in the same way it does on places like twitter. The date of the original post is usually obscured, so somehow this piece from 2016 is still making the rounds. It's cool that this drawing I did in 2016-17 is kinda... I mean it is part of the core effort of my dissertation!
Or put another way, lol I've been working on this topic in some format since 2010
mappin pawpaws and the butterflies (Zebra swallowtails) who depend on them to see where their northern border is. it's somewhere between Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, but where that line is exactly is very fuzzy
Pink is all the Zebra swallowtails, green is pawpaw trees themselves
