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please visit for the Wild dot world slash donate. I'm going to do. It's high on a mountain the warm winds are blowing where the winds are blowing too.

There ain't no way of no wind.

The mountain grass is shore.

It's dry and close to burning

crying out for water

as the seasons turning.

Sweet smell the pine,

tall Western cedar drifting on the wind through mountains like a river.

Hello, my name is Iana Young, and I welcome you to Un Learn and Rewild, where we explore

radical ideas relating to Earth Renewal. Today we're speaking with Mary Ellen Hannibal, who is a Bay Area writer and editor, focusing on science and culture.

Hannibal's book, The Spine of the Continent, is about a social, geographical, and scientific effort to save

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