A biologist who wrote The Forest Unseen, a fantastic book about how Haskell stared at a spot in the forest in Tennessee everyday for a year. He discusses ferns, moss, trees, small animals, and even takes his clothes off for 5 minutes in the middle of winter.
Haskell also wrote The Songs of Trees.
Haskell received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at Cornell.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.