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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 01/09/2026

Landing in North Dakota and most of these points of light out the window are not a house or a building but an open flame, burning 24/7. We’ve set the land on fire.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 31/08/2026

Here’s how it opens, before going into a detailed account of the previous abundance of bison, passenger pigeons, wetlands and water dwellers, beavers, predators, and forests in Indiana, based largely on primary historical sources

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 18/08/2026

Indiana’s Grand Kankakee Marsh — once one of the largest wetlands on the continent, rivalling the Everglades. It was drained starting in the 1850s and was basically entirely lost to agriculture by 1920.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 17/08/2026

A lot of Indiana is underwater after massive flooding — In many ways that’s a return to the state’s natural condition.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 15/08/2026

they described multitudinous trees in the range of 200 feet tall, 90 feet to the first limb, and 25 feet in girth, and sycamore trees so large that 29 men were able to stand side-by-side within one’s trunk

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 15/08/2026

naturalists who had explored the jungles of South America were mesmerized by the size of our trees and the seeming endlessness of the woodland expanse,

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 15/08/2026

Indiana was once more than 80% covered by woods, with its 20 million acres of primeval forest nearly long enough to encircle the globe one and a quarter times in a mile-wide band; early Europeans arriving in the region that would later become our state described a realm of forests without end,

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 13/08/2026

« 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. » Aldo Leopold

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 06/08/2026

ndiana's Buffalo Trace! An ancient buffalo highway that cut a deep path into the land from the prairies of Illinois to the grasslands of Kentucky, cutting across the thick forests of Indiana, and making several detours to salt licks.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 06/08/2026

Midwest Historic Land Cover: A story of large-scale forest and prairie loss. Data from: HISTORIC LAND COVER DATA. Land use and land cover changes in the contiguous United States from 1630 to 2020. Culley, Alexis V. et al. (DOI: 10.1007/s10980-025-02163-4)

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 05/08/2026

Midwest Mycorrhizal Density 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 05/08/2026

Midwest Forest Integrity Index 🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 28/02/2026

The Daoist concept of ziran 自然 open.substack.com/pub/zacharya...

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 27/03/2025

if any of this interests you I highly recommend any of Peter Cozzens's books, this one is on the Creek War specifically and is excellent:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 27/03/2025

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend took place on this day in 1814. This is a map of the battle I researched, pitched and made as lead map and infographic designer for a nationwide US history platform being rolled out in middle and high schools now.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 27/03/2025

L'arrondissement montréalais de Pierrefonds-Roxboro:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 25/03/2025

A map I designed last year for the Department of Justice in the case United States v. Abbott, regarding the placement of razor wires and buoys along the US-Mexico border in the Rio Grande.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 25/03/2025

les arrondissements montréalais de LaSalle et de Montréal-Nord, en 3D

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 24/03/2025

going to have to expand this map pretty far north pretty soon so reposting now to get some more juice out of it lol. the MBT:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 22/03/2025

national cathedral and dumbarton oaks

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 21/03/2025

Gnarly Native Plants of the Mid-Atlantic. An infographic I made for fun a while back.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 19/03/2025

first 70+° 25 mile bike ride of the year always hits a little different

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 19/03/2025

badass birds of the midatlantic: an infographic I made for fun a while back.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 18/03/2025

A map of transportation and major cities in the United States in 1830. I made this as lead map and infographic designer for a nationwide US history platform being rolled out now in middle and high schools across the US.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 17/03/2025

Indiana University Bloomington 3D campus map, for fun. In my opinion the most beautiful college campus in the U.S.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 14/03/2025

Last but certainly not least, DC's Ward 6:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 14/03/2025

🌸 🌸 🌸 It's getting close to that time of year here in DC 🌸 🌸 🌸 Here are two cherry blossom-themed maps I've made of DC a few years ago:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 13/03/2025

les arrondissements montréalais d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville, de Saint-Laurent, et d'Anjou:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 12/03/2025

The story of US relations with Native Americans is one of constant backstabbing, deceit, and pulling the rug out from under people. A map I made of treaties between the US and Native Americans during the early Republic.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 12/03/2025

it's always tickled me that Montréal orients everything in the city by the St.-Lawrence river, using their own compass based on the flow of the river for naming things, which leads to situations where one of the most southeastern boroughs is named southwest...

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 12/03/2025

A little infographic I made about the Panama Canal as lead map and infographics designer for a nationwide US history education platform being rolled out in middle and high school across the country right now.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 11/03/2025

Le 1er arrondissement de Paris, en 3D:

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 10/03/2025

getting into photography as a hobby is expensive af but leads to excellent desktop backgrounds lol

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 10/03/2025

a couple of maps and infographics on the Vietnam War that I made as lead map and infographics designer for a US history platform being rolled out now in middle and high school nationwide.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 10/03/2025

Les arrondissements montréalais de Verdun et de Saint-Léonard, en 3D.

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 09/03/2025

some other signs of spring

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 09/03/2025

the japanese apricots are starting to bloom! IMO their flowers are way prettier than yoshino cherries, they smell like heaven (like toasted almonds mixed with flowers) and bloom way earlier than cherries, my personal favorites

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Zach @zacharyammerman.com · 08/03/2025

Some maps on one of my personal favorite historical subjects, the peopling of the Americas. I made these as lead map designer for the Story of America Project, a nationwide US history education platform being rolled out in middle and high schools across the country right now.

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