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DON GAYTON
Don Gayton is the thor of Okanagan Odyssey (3.71 avg ratg, 21 ratgs, 5 reviews, published 2010), Landsp of the Interr (4.20 avg ratg, 10 ra... * don gayton *
More books by Don Gayton…. In 22 engagg says, Summerland wrer Don Gayton f the personal wh the elogil to portray the geography and the natural and human history of his adopted Okanagan Valley homeland. Draft rister and profsnal elogist by trag, Don Gayton registers the plexy and ternnectedns of every livg thg his environment, om the rivers and lak, to the plants and animals, and the human settlements along the Okanagan, Sikameen, and Columbia waterurs shapg his backyard.
DON GAYTON
NELSON, B.C. - At some pot early his new life Canada, Don Gayton stopped beg “Don Gayton the draft dodger” and beme simply Don Gayton. It was no magil moment, no grand transfiguratn. * don gayton *
Gayton tells what we n learn om tree rgs bis the tree's age; some fe pots about firewood; and a ltle b about Chook wawa, and his own library of nature wrg. The thor of four prev books - The Wheatgrass Mechanism (1990), Landsp of the Interr (1996), Kokanee: The Redfish and the Kootenay Bregn (2002) and Interwoven Wild: An Elogist Loose the Garn (2007) - Gayton's reer, spanng five s, clus workg for the BC Mistry of Forts and Range, the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture, the BC Mistry of Environment, the Lower Sikameen Indian Band, as well as numero lol ernments and muny anizatns.
– At some pot early his new life Canada, Don Gayton stopped beg “Don Gayton the draft dodger” and beme simply Don Gayton. Gayton, who spent his childhood Los Angel, had received a draft notice and been nied nscient-objector stat.
Like so many of the timated 50, 000 Amerin war risters – draft dodgers, ary serters, pacifists – who migrated to Canada durg the Vietnam War, Gayton worked hard to blend his new untry, and that meant, part, cuttg loose om his old life and inty as a Yankee. Once settled, Gayton didn’t seek out other draft dodgers, and they didn’t seek him out.