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Early Artifacts

Recently I discovered that The Sciences has been digitized. Below I've posted pieces that appeared under my name. I've been an independent writer since I left the magazine, in January of 1990.

Cultivating Nature (The Sciences Mar/Apr 1992)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgNjI2MzcwNGEtMmZjNy00ODBhLWI5MGItYjRkZTYxY2E1Yzdh&hl=en_US

Untimely Requiem (The Sciences Jan/Feb 1990)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgYTUyNmZjMDctODc0Ny00ODZiLTg3NmItZjNhYWE2ZjE5NjNk&hl=en_US

The Scents Around Us (The Sciences Nov/Dec 1989)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgY2YwMTMxY2ItYWNkMy00NWYwLWFjN2ItOWI0YThkNDU0MGNh&hl=en_US

The Big Picture (The Sciences Mar/Apr 1989)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgNzM1ODU5ZGMtNTY4OC00NDU1LTlmY2EtZGJhMDFkNDJiMzg1&hl=en_US

Artifacts of Exploration (The Sciences Sept/Oct 1988)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgZGQ5YjY3NjQtNTYyMi00NTRlLWI2MWMtYWM1NmE0ODIzZmE1&hl=en_US

But Is It Science? (The Sciences May/June 1987)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgM2Q4ODg5MjctYTdjMS00YTM4LThjMjAtZTY4ZmU4ZjU0YjQ1&hl=en_US

Stilled Lives (The Sciences July/Aug 1986)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgZTY0NTE1OGQtYzRjMi00ZGUyLThlODItNGM1NDUzNTQyN2I1&hl=en_US

Sun Gardens (The Sciences Nov/Dec 1985)

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B4vOWmIx-nwgYjIwYzRhMjctZmQxOS00MTVmLWJmOTQtOTFjYzNkY2I3ODBh&hl=en_US

National Geographic: Bristol Bay Story (December 2010)

The link below isn't working, so I'm posting this again to make it easier to find:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/bristol-bay/dobb-text.html

Spit separating Merchants Bay, Lake Winnipeg, from Merchants Lake. Photographer Greg Girard and I camped here with brothers Fred and Alfred Mitchell, commercial walleye fishermen. Poplar River First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. June 14, 2011.

Commercial walleye fishermen on Lake Winnipeg traveling to the Poplar River First Nation fish station with the day's catch. Manitoba, Canada. June 15, 2011.

A commercial walleye fisherman places bins of fish on a conveyor belt outside the Poplar River First Nation fish station. June 15, 2011.

Robin Batenchuk, one of only two women from the Poplar River First Nation who skipper their own boats in the commerical walleye fishery. Twenty-three years old, Robin is also the youngest skipper in the Poplar River fleet. Here she's dressing fish she caught earlier the same day. She's also removing and setting aside cheeks--a delicacy--for her grandfather. June 15, 2011.

Willard Bittern, Perreault Bruce, and Ernest Bruce study the river to determine whether we can make it up the rapids in small motor-driven aluminum boats and canoes. Prudence triumphed. We portaged. Poplar River First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. June 17, 2011.

Six-year-old Autumn Bruce and her grandparents, Ernest and Jocelyn Bruce, head up the Poplar River on a camping trip, Poplar River First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. June 17, 2011.

"Over his own mind and body, the individual is sovereign."

Medical marijuana panel at Hotel Nikko, San Francisco. October 2, 2003. Tried to shift the focus from "drug abuse" to the abuse of power that masquerades as the War on Drugs.

http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/independent.htm

All the Earth Tangos (1987)

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/12/nyregion/long-island-opinion-battling-with-unruly-nature.html?scp=1&sq=edwin%20dobb&st=cse

Radiolab: Snow Geese Die to Save Our Sorry Ass Souls

http://www.radiolab.org/2010/jun/28/even-the-worst-laid-plans/

I had a teeny part in this. The heroes are Andrea and Don Stierle, renegade scientists and fellow Butticians through and through.

Most Recent Publication

"Alaska's Choice: Salmon or Gold." National Geographic (December, 2010).
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/bristol-bay/dobb-text.html

A Dinosaur Saga (2002)

What Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?

First Alcatraz Crossing (2008)

Trial by Water, Alcatraz, Swimming - AARP The Magazine