Rita Mae Reese facilitator (Free, limit to 20, registration required.) BHI Walk and Observational Poetry. Or just not fully evolved? Maybe my foraging style says more about my character than foraging theory can answer for. Chris Fink Beloit College, Amy Lutzke Friends Of Lorine Niedecker 12:00 Lunch (Box lunch available, sign up open in August.) 1:00 Blackhawk Island Writer’s Workshops Blackhawk Island Lorine’s Cabin. I’d often wander to a nearby bush of seemingly juicier berries before I had picked clean the one I was working on. I found that I myself was not an optimal forager. If you put Chris Fink in any location, he’ll write about it. Using Optimal Forage Theory, biologists aim to understand how animals evolved to maximize forage intake while minimizing the work needed to fill their bellies. Just as his new book draws on his travels, English professor Chris Fink helps students find and express their personal experiences through their writings and guides them through the publishing process with the Beloit Fiction Journal. There are worse kinds of work, we all agreed, happy to biologize as we devoured the objects of our study.īelieve it or not, there is a mode of scientific inquiry that investigates such matters. Dividing into 30,000, we deduced that a full grown bear in these woods could consume 566 handfuls in a day’s foraging. Between the five of us, we averaged 53 berries per handful. So, each of us gathered a handful of blueberries and counted. We wanted to know what 30,000 blueberries looked like. There are 100+ professionals named 'Chris Fink', who use LinkedIn to exchange information, ideas, and opportunities. 'The Beloit Fiction Journal publishes the best in contemporary short fiction. View the profiles of professionals named 'Chris Fink' on LinkedIn. In this session, Crystal Spring Gibbins (Split Rock Review) and Chris Fink (Beloit Fiction Journal) will join moderator Kathryn Savage for a conversation around how to find the right home for your work. In August, my writing wilderness students and I performed a science experiment on blueberry hill, overlooking Low Lake in the Superior National Forest. Website: Contact: Chris Fink, editor-in-chief. Animal Behavior (BIO 285 with Lab): Jesse Ellis Biology, Coe College Writing Wilderness (RHE 345): Chris Fink English, Beloit College Northwoods Ecology.
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