Dan Flores
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4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Ogden and Flagstaff are within a day's drive of one another.
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Yet both nature and culture have made them into mind-bendingly different places.
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Churchy versus Hippie.
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Great Salt Lake versus 100-foot-tall Ponderosa Pines.
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That's the West.
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It's Seattle and Phoenix, Aspen and Rapid City, Los Angeles and Cody.
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And at Yifu Tuan's level of natural space, it's the Central Coast and the High Plains, the Tetons and the Terry Badlands, the Sonoran Desert and the Redwood Rainforest.
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Even when we're attached to places and think of ourselves as natives or as coming from somewhere, modern life doesn't ask us to think very hard about just what it is we're attached to.
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For most of us, the affiliation, perhaps the name we offer when someone asks us where we're from, is to a purely cultural construction, a state or a city, maybe the residence of a sports team we follow.
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But especially in the West, our states are often just boundary lines of boxes, superimposed on the ground like an ancient Peruvian earthworks design.
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Inside those boxes are much richer topographies featuring natural boundaries like river courses or mountain ranges or exposed geology.
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And inside that topography are many distinctive ecological settings.
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As I pointed out in episode 28 of this podcast, New Mexico, a state bounded pretty much as a classic western rectangle,
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features within that rectangle eight principal ecoregions that at fine-grain mapping map into an astonishing 55 different ecological subsets, what many of us have referred to since the 1980s as bioregions.
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What I've been preparing to say then is that natural settings like bioregions actually have
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a long history themselves as human places.
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And one way to become a resident of place in the West or anywhere else is to immerse yourself in the history and ecology of your local bioregion.
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That makes at least as much sense as an affiliation with the Denver Broncos fan viewership.
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When I was 35, I was a professor at a university in a city a friend referred to pretty memorably, I thought, with the line, my God, ghastly place.
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Nonetheless, it seemed the right time for acquiring my first house.
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