Author: Peter Michael Bauer
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Playing with Fire: Social Forestry with Hazel
“Forests are social, they are lonely, and they need us,” proclaimed Hazel, thus beginning a week-long workshop on “social forestry” that involved clearing brush, making charcoal, thinning tree stands, coppicing shrubs, reducing fire danger, weaving baskets, making wooden poles, touring various ecotones, and the main reason most of us were there: prescribed burning. There were lectures…
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Rewild or Die, Back by Popular Demand
Urban Scout had a reputation. Good or bad, it depends on who you ask. From 2003 to 2009, he evolved from a fictional movie character, into my full blown alter-ago and muse. In 2006 I began blogging under the moniker to encourage more people to begin rewilding. The end goal was to spark a movement that…
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Rewilding Classes This Fall & Winter
Rewilding starts September 12th. All other dates TBA.
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Interview with Peter Michael Bauer (Nov. 2015)
I did this interview with some students from Evergreen for their research last November at the portland plant medicine gathering. I enjoyed it and felt like posting it online. The questions were deep and wide-ranging. It was a really fun interview.
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Invasive English Ivy article in Oregonian
Oregon Live’s Home & Garden section did a write up on my English Ivy basketry project. Check it out here.
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Speaking at PSU Earth Week
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Speaking at Linfield College
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Rewilding 201: Rewilding in Action
People often get on my case for not prescribing a “5 things you can do to rewild” type of program. To me, rewilding is a renaissance; an idea (or cohesion of ideas) that takes form through individual & collective creativity. To make it a program is to kill it. Instead of coming up with a…
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Permaculture Podcast Interview #2
Scott Mann at the Permaculture Podcast had me back on the show. This time around we discussed the two realms of rewilding: conservation biology and anarcho-primitivism. There is only so much you can talk about in an hour, but we go pretty deep, only to be left wanting to continue the conversation. Listen to it…
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Towards an Understanding of Cultural Appropriation in Rewilding
Sometimes in rewilding people purposefully or unintentionally culturally appropriate. Here’s some idea of how to be respectful while rewilding.
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Rewilding is Not Survivalism. So Why Do People Confuse the Two?
Both outsiders looking in, and those new to rewilding, often conflate wilderness survival skills and survivalism, with rewilding.
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Rewilding 101: “Prehistoric” Skills & Ideas for a More Resilient Future
I’m excited to teach a course called “Rewilding 101” through the Portland Underground Graduate School this coming month (November 2015). Check out the course details below: Class: SUNDAYS November 1, 8, 15 and 22, 10:30am-noon. Space limited to 15 students. The concept of rewilding, of un-doing the domestication of the last several thousand years, is…