Ghosts of Distant Trees

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ghosts of Distant Trees</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Erica Watson traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park Alaska-its vast shifting landscape seasonal labor rhythms and the subtle politics of inhabitation. Through lyric and narrative essays she explores how built environments like Denali's single road shape encounters with land gender weather and community. Turning from iconic vistas to gravel orange peels and garden beds Watson asks what it might be like to get to know a place without immediately thinking of what threatens it. Haunted by fire and thaw these essays resist elegy offering instead a complex meditation on belonging vulnerability and the fragile intimacies that persist in a warming world. This is writing attuned to detail disruption and the ethics of attention.</span></p>