Hidden Springs

Hidden Springs is the home of Transdisciplinary Ecologist Tom Baugh. Named for the springs that flow in the hollow below the house, Hidden Springs is also a metaphor for those many streams of intellect, creativity, and sensitivity that flow from each of us.

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Thoughts on a Holographic Aesthetic of Nature

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Aesthetics deals with beauty, the nature of beauty and how we relate to beauty. Aesthetics raises questions such as ‘does beauty ha...

Sunday, October 11, 2015

Ecological Restoration

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The field of Restoration Ecology began to develop and formalize at about the same time as Environmental Aesthetics. Like Environmental Aesth...

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Reflections on A Pool of Still Water

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I doubt that there is anything in the environment that attracts me more quickly or engages my attention and fixes me so raptly, than a ...

Monday, August 31, 2015

On Aesthetics

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Is it enough to say that a particular place is beautiful and that it projects (or we perceive) aesthetic appeal? In my work as an ecologis...

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Footsteps III

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Continued from preceding post) The rocky gorge of the Walker River. (Photo by Tom Baugh) Early that morning, we had driven east in ...

Footsteps II

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(Continued from preceding post) This is a place of vast stretches of arid land. (Photo by Tom Baugh) We were searching for t...

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Footsteps I

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Much of Nevada can be a harsh and difficult land. (Photo by Tom Baugh) I recently traveled to the western edge of the Great Basin...

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Hidden Springs: I am an Ecologist with additional interdisciplinary education and degrees in aspects of the Social Sciences and Humanities and a transdisciplinary perspective. My journey has been motivated by a strong interest in nature and an equally strong curiosity about humanity in its interactions with nonhuman nature. In this regard, am fortunate to have founded the Religion and Conservation Biology Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology in 2000 and, currently, am convening the Environmental Aesthetics Study Group. Much of my work has been with water, wetlands, and the plants and animals that live in these places. Serving this life-long interest, in 2012 I founded the Groundwater Wetlands and Bogs Study Group.

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