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David O’Hara

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Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia

Downstream: Reflections on Brook Trout, Fly Fishing, and the Waters of Appalachia

Downstream traces the native brook trout of the Appalachians. It's about clean water, because we all live downstream.

2014

Bill McKibben, et al.

Bill McKibben, David L. O'Hara, et al.

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Jan 1

How To Stand Out As A Business Major

Become a big fish in a big pond.

How To Stand Out As A Business Major

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Jan 11, 2025

I still believe.

Bumblebee feeding on the yellow blossom of a maximilian sunflower in the late fall. Brown grass in the background, and slender, lance-like green leaves branch out behind the single flower. The bee’s wings are tattered at the end of the season, and its head is buried in the flower, seeking food.

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Dec 6, 2024

Inside Higher Education, Looking Out

How I am working out my vocation right now, and where it might be leading this professor

View from a stone window in a Civilian Conservation Corps building atop Sandia Crest, looking west over Albuquerque and the Rio Grande. Photograph by David O’Hara and copyright 2024.

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Better Humans

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Nov 25, 2022

How to Find Your Calling

Break up the big question of what to do with your life into three smaller questions, and include at least one friend as you answer them.

Three overlapping circles on a chalkboard. Each circle has text. One circle says “What you would like your story to be.” The second circle says “What you do well.” The third says “What you enjoy.”

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Dec 23, 2022

How I Came to Love Insects

I carry a hand lens everywhere these days.

Black and orange butterfly with white spots on green leaf.

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Jan 5

Letting my day begin with wonder.

Philosophy begins with wonder

Letting my day begin with wonder.

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Dec 13, 2025

Whither College?

By a thousand small turns colleges have lost their bearings.

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Jan 22, 2025

Teaching Is A Work Of Love

On finding my “Why” in the classroom

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Jan 10, 2025

Word of the Day: Huachicolero/huachicoleo

Word of the Day: Huachicolero/huachicoleo

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Jan 8, 2025

What’s a Mussel Worth?

Auto-generated description: Four freshwater mussel shells are arranged on icy ground next to a person’s hand for scale.

David O’Hara

David O’Hara

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Professor of Philosophy, Classics, Religion, and Environmental Studies. Author of several books. Saunterer. Prefers to teach outdoors. Studies fish and forests.

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