PART I. Why go?: Justifying teaching outdoors
"To see things in their wholeness": consilience, natural history, and teaching literature outdoors / Robert E. Burkholder
Teaching the desert: the literature of landscape in and out of place / Charles Mitchell
Going to Bashō's pine: wilderness education for the twenty-first century / R. Edward Grumbine
Where passions intertwine: teaching, literature, and the outdoors / Alan Brew
Engaging nature: a Canadian case study of learning in the outdoors / Brent Cuthbertson ... [et al.]
PART II. Strategies for teaching
Can't see the forest or the trees: finding focus / Katherine R. Chandler
Writing the watershed / Laird Christensen
Teaching environmental values through creative writing with school children / Terry Gifford
Going out as a way in: social, cultural, and ecological learning and the university field trip / Liz Newbery and Bob Henderson
On the path, off the trail: teaching nature writing as a practice of the wild / Fred Taylor
Road trip: self-directed field work as a learning journey / Andrew Wingfield
PART III. Field considerations: issues to consider in planning and execution
Facing the challenge: overcoming the common obstacles to running a successful field studies course / Corey Lee Lewis
In Thoreau's wake on the West Branch / Allison B. Wallace
Woodswomen and "super studs": gender issues in a northwoods environmental studies program / Britain A. Scott and Steven M. Hoffman
Building community on a budget in the Big Bend of Texas / Barbara "Barney" Nelson
Urban nature as a scene of instruction / John Tallmadge.