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'Asta Bowen

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'Asta Bowen’s Biography

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'Asta Bowen is an author from Somers, Montana. Her newspaper column, "Peace Correspondent," ran in the opinion pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for more than a decade. More recent op-eds are available through Writers on the Range, a syndication service of High Country News.

Her first book, The Huckleberry Book (Farcountry Press, 1988), is a nonfiction account of "everything you ever wanted to know about huckleberries, but your mouth was too full to ask." It remains one of the top-sell…

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A Colony of Screechers And Wailers

A Colony of Screechers And Wailers

Manx shearwaters nest and hatch their young in burrows in sand and dirt. Adults forage all day over the ocean…

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Guest Column : A do-it-yourself, homegrown national park

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By 'Asta Bowen
| Curry Coastal Pilot Verified
National parks have been getting a lot of love since the pandemic, so much that this summer you need reservations at many. For example, you must make a reservation just to drive Montana's legendary Going-To-The-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, and passes can sell out within hours of release. That’s better than stalking parking lots before sunrise and finding trails turning into conga lines, but it makes me all the more interested in a new national park that’s in the works.
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Reward yourself and nature with a DIY, homegrown national park

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By 'Asta Bowen
| Las Vegas Sun Verified
By Asta Bowen National parks have been getting a lot of love since the pandemic, so much that this summer you need reservations at many. For example, you must make a reservation just to drive Montana’s legendary Going-To-The-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, and passes can sell out within hours of release. That’s better than stalking parking lots before sunrise and finding trails turning into conga lines, but it makes me all the more interested in a new national park that’s in the works.
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Writers on the Range: Like it or not, we learned a few things

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By 'Asta Bowen
| Pagosa Springs Sun Verified
By Asta Bowen PREVIEW Columnist I have to admit, I almost feel sorry for old 2020. It’s been catching a lot of hate these days and not without cause. Of course, the year we call 2020 — with the obligatory eye-roll — isn’t an actual force unto itself, just a measure of time, one of the handy concepts we use to create a sense of order in the universe. And there’s the rub.
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