Preface, by Bill McKibben Foreword, by Jay Hammond Introduction, by Marybeth Holleman Poems and Essays If the Owl Calls Again , John Haines Your Land , Mike Burwell The Possibility of Witness , Carolyn Servid April , Tom Sexton A Voice for Shared Lands , Hank Lentfer August , Susan Alexander Derrera Respect Gaalee''ya , Howard Luke Continuing a Conversation on Place, Poetry, Love , Amy Crawford Slouching Toward Deer Rock , Daniel Henry Dingmait , Joan Kane Fall , Shannon Gramse Finding Refuge , Karen Jettmar Ice Auguries , Burns Cooper The Mighty Sand Lance , Martin Robards Morels , Jerah Chadwick Out of the Depths , Bill Sherwonit Walker Lake , Peggy Shumaker Fishing Grounds , Nancy Lord Withdraw , Joan Kane Wolf Wars , Nick Jans Election Day: Reading Chevigny and Thinking About Referendum Six , Anne Coray Partners on the Wheel: Dancing at the Vernal Equinox , Douglas Yates Two-Part Invention for Winter , Karen Tschannen Ghost Bear , Kaylene Johnson Light on the Kuskokwim , Alexandra Ellen Appel Standing on a Heart , Steve Kahn Cormorant Killer , Jerah Chadwick Facing East , R. Glendon Brunk Due North , Joan Kane The Experiment , Nancy Lord The Moving Out , John Morgan Going for Water , Karin Dahl Beached , Pamela A. Miller Drink , Molly Lou Freeman The Day the Water Died , Walter Meganack, Sr. October , Buffy McKay What Happens When Polar Bears Leave , Marybeth Holleman Bones , Amy Crawford Curry Ridge , Sally Carricaburu Tree Bonking , Ann Dixon In the Shelter of the Forest , Marjorie Kowalski Cole Wash Silver , Mike Burwell The Forest of Eyes , Richard Nelson Sweet Drug of the Backward Drag , Anne Coray Losing Out to Baseball, Motherhood, and Apple Pie , Susan Pope Garbage Bears, Hoonah , Ken Waldman Crossing Paths , Nick Jans Sweet Spring Grasses , Tom Sexton Precarious Preserve , Anne Coray The Man Who Skins Animals , John Haines Wondering Where the Whales Are , Eva Saulitis Otter Woman , Jo Going That Which Sustains Us , Joanna Wassillie The Ecology of Subsistence , Cathy Rexford The Middle Ground , Sherry Simpson Chatanika , Peggy Shumaker Ted and Me , Libby Roderick Denali , Tom Sexton The Cape , Marybeth Holleman Return to Richardson, Spring 1981 , John Haines The Last Wolf , Mary TallMountain Thematic Contents Contributors Acknowledgments About the Editors.