Curious about ARCGIS cascade, I decided to give it a try. Surprisingly it is easy and similar to using a Prezi, a tool for presentations I’ve used in high school. Yesterday I went to the University Special Collections office and used their scanner to scan all the archives I have found interesting and useful to our project so far. This ArcGis Cascade is my experience going through all those archives and how I found hope and passion in words from the past. I used this digital tool to combine archival documents and nature writing in hopes to express how historical passion seeped into my soul through words on paper.

Craggy Gardens is a success story. Something I don’t hear too often in my ENVS classes these days. A story of a man who was relentless in his desire to preserve this section of virgin hemlocks so he and others could find respite and recreation amongst the trees. He didn’t give up despite many letters I read through that told him it would be difficult, impossible even. In a society driven by capitalism, how could he win this land when people were going to make money off of that timber? However he used the spiritual yearning and internal craving from his community that thrives off of escaping from their busy lives in nature.

This blog post is shorter, because I spent a lot of time at the Special Collections office and creating this story map. Hope you enjoy my first attempt at ARCGIS! (it may be easier to access it through the link so you can see all the pictures up close: https://arcg.is/1XrPPP)