A bird flushed noisily through the undergrowth. "Look there, a ruffed grouse," he said, his delight obvious. This place is an example of what Davis calls "rewilding," which means the footprint of human activity has begun to fade. "It simply means stepping back and letting nature unfold as it will," he said. "Some of this was farmed as recently as the 1990s. Probably used for sheep pasture and certainly for logging. You're seeing old stone walls."
"She was a voice for nature and a voice for the river," said Rita Kampalath, L.A. County's chief sustainability officer and a longtime friend of Winter's. "She had such strength of her convictions, and she was so clear-eyed in the vision that she wanted to push forward. And I think that inspired a lot of people."
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When I first learned about Priyanka Kumar's new book, The Light Between Apple Trees: Rediscovering the Wild Through a Beloved American Fruit, I wondered how the title could work its way into a book-length manuscript. I rapidly discovered how well it did in myriad, fascinating, and unexpected ways. Much of her book reminded me of my own views on the importance of personal rewilding—rewilding our hearts—and every page contained an important inspirational message.