MERCER - The Northwoods offers us a vast and beautiful environment--but that environment is so large and diverse that it can hard to take in all at once. Author, interpretive naturalist, and guide leader John Bates tries to make that environment easier to understand.
Bates thinks of it as his job to help people answer questions about the world around them, "to help people take [in] the aesthetic blur of the Northwoods," as Bates puts it. "Everyone loves this place, but I'm not sure if everyone knows why, exactly. But its beauty... What are those components of that?"
Bates says those components can be hard to see if you go too fast.
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