Memorial Day Weekend, 2012, Tidal Influence Principal, Taylor Parker, presented the following with colleagues Dr. George Hart and Pete Stearns from California State University, Long Beach at the Robinson Jeffers Association Conference in Pacific Grove, California.

1. Consilience on the Coast
 Jeffers
 Urban Wetlands Restoration
 Service Learning
Dr. George Hart ~ CSULB
Taylor Parker ~ Tidal Influence
Peter Stearns ~ CSULB
Robinson Jeffers Conference
May 27, 2012

2. EO Wilson
Consilience: “…the sciences, humanities, and
arts have a common goal: to give a purpose to
understanding the details, to lend to all inquirers
a conviction, far deeper than a mere working
proposition, that the world is orderly and can be
explained by a small number of natural laws."

3. EO Wilson
Culture: Consistently changing and sometimes contradictory values
“…the eternal foment generated by Multilevel Selection…”
The job of the:
Natural Sciences Social Sciences and Humanities
To Explain What is Going on To Think Out and Deal With It

4. Southern California
“…be in nothing as so
 Depending on your
moderate as in love of
wetland definition and
source, 70%-98% of
man…”
coastal wetlands are gone

6. English 444: Literature and Environment
A General Education Service Learning Capstone

7. Principles of Academic Service Learning
There are four basic guiding questions to ask about the principles of service
learning:
Engagement—does the service component meet a public good? How will the
community be consulted and how will the campus-community boundaries be
negotiated?
Reflection—is there a mechanism that encourages students to link their service
experience to course content and to reflect upon why the service is important?
Reciprocity—how will students and the community teach and learn from one
another?
Public Dissemination—how will the service work be presented or returned to
the public?

8. English 444 students at
Colorado Lagoon Restoration, Long Beach

9. Aldo Leopold / Robinson Jeffers

10. “The Shack” and Tor House

11. “The Land Ethic”
“A thing is right when it tends to
preserve the integrity, stability, and
beauty of the biotic community. It
is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
(Sand County Almanac 224-25)

12. The Land Ethic’s key terms:
As for “beauty,” it was, in Leopold’s view, an
attribute of lands that possessed stability and
integrity.
Integrity, stability, and beauty: they were three ways
of describing one object—healthy land—in terms of
its interrelated parts, its nutrient cycling, and its
pleasing appearance to the eye, ear, and soul.
(Newton, Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey 347)

13. from “The Answer”
Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the
divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart
from that, or else you will share man’s pitiful confusions, or
drown in despair when his days darken.
(CP 2: 536)

14. “Conceptual Restorationism” in Sand County
Almanac
Lawrence Buell writes, “Environmental writing does
not literally repair the biosphere, does not literally do
anything directly to the environment. But . . . it tries to
practice a conceptual restorationism in reorienting the
partially denaturized reader not to a primordial
nature, which we cannot recover either in fact or in
fantasy, but to an artifactual version of environment
designed to evoke place-sense” (Environmental
Imagination 267).

15. from “Bixby’s Landing”
The laborers are gone, but what a good multitude
Is here in return: the rich-lichened rock, the rose-tipped stone-crop, the
constant
Ocean's voices, the cloud-lighted space.
The kilns are cold on the hill but here in the rust of the broken boiler
Quick lizards lighten, and a rattle-snake flows
Down the cracked masonry, over the crumbled fire-brick. In the rotting
timbers
And roofless platforms all the free companies
Of windy grasses have root and make seed; wild buckwheat blooms in the
fat
Weather-slacked lime from the bursted barrels.
Two duckhawks darting in the sky of their cliff-hung nest are the voice of
the headland.
Wine-hearted solitude, our mother the wilderness,
Men's failures are often as beautiful as men's triumphs, but your
returnings
Are even more precious than your first presence.

16. 2 Urban Wetland Restoration Projects
From The Purse-Seine:
“I cannot tell you how beautiful the city appeared,
and a little terrible.”

20. Colorado Lagoon

21. FOCL Education Program
Instruction Events Service- Innovators
Learning
School- Summer
Estuary Quarterly Marsh Champions TIDE
Year
Exploration EcoEvents Doctors Curriculum
Creative CLEAN
Arts
Objective: Objective:
Objective: Objective:
Make CL a field Offer quality
Objective: Objective: Provide Provide Objective:
trip destination nature
Provide To celebrate service- service- 1. Provide opps for
Audience: instruction to
monthly the community learning opps learning opps those interested in
Classes visiting public
opportunities to and the earth for K-8th for 9th- nature and
Audience:
express through the CL Audience: university education
General
EcoConcerns Audience: General Audience: 2. Create Docents
Public
Audience: General Public/Classes General for Ed Programs
General Public/Classes Public/Classes Audience:
Public/Classes Interns
Objective: Objective:
1. Provide opps to 1. Provide opps for
develop and maintain those interested in
programs and events science and
2. Develop and research
Maintain ED 2. Create data for
Programs Ed Program,
Audience: stakeholders and
Interns the public
Audience:
Interns

22. Service-
Learning
Marsh Champions
Doctors Curriculum
Objective: Objective:
Provide Provide
service- service-
learning opps learning opps
for K-8th for 9th-
Audience: university
General Audience:
Public/Classes General
Public/Classes

23. Here is the stuff we can see…..

24. …..And with it comes the stuff we can’t see…..
Poor water quality

25. Contaminated Marine Sediment

29.  Pre culvert
 Post culvert

30.  Post culvert

35. From “Shine, Republic”
 “Be great, carve deep your heel marks.”

36. from “Solstice”
 “ We can even face our lives, to bear them or change
them…”

38. STEARNS
 Service Learning Project/Experience Slides

39. Sit-Spot

40. The Real Work

44. from “The Deer Lay Down Their Bones”
“What can I do for the child?”

45. Ritual of Restoration ~
Thank You!
Ghart@csulb.edu
Taylor@Tidalinfluence.com
P.Stearns@hotmail.com