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At Play in the Fields of Science

Donald Burgess

This column is about an old Montana English major/wanna-be geologist's drill-down into geology, earth history, and capital S science.

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  • Donald Burgess

    Born in Missoula, Montana in 1946 atop 5 miles of Belt SuperGroup sediment,. Writer, editor, teacher, trail builder, elk hunter, drummer. BA English, UM Missoula, 1967. MS English, the Program in Writing, Middlebury College, Vermont, 1987.

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