birds | Nature | Philosophy | Rivers | wildlife
Kingfishers in Common- a story for Sept. 11th
Today’s Blog is a scene (adapted) from the creative nonfiction book I’m in the process of revising–about…
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Cormorant Wisdom: Spread Your Wings Wide in the Sun
Every morning in Charleston, Oregon, double-crested cormorants greet the dawn. They perch singly or in pairs on…
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Air Mattress Birding on Morgan Lake
Summer birding can be mighty fine on Morgan Lake, a few miles above La Grande, Oregon. No…
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birds | conservation | Nature | ocean
Oregon Coastal Islands: Rocking With Sea Birds
Close your eyes here by the edge of the Pacific Ocean, here by the fortress island of basalt cloaked in…
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birds | conservation | Nature | trees | wildlife
Ode to Wildlife Snags
Long live the forest in all its glory of young and old, of dying and dead, of…
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archeology | birds | butterflies | camping | conservation | Nature | Philosophy | Rivers
Free-flowing 4th of July
What is it to be free? To be independent? To be brave? A free-flowing river can…
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birds | camping | Nature | Philosophy | travel
A Wandering Naturalist Follows the Kingfisher
I wrote this piece to publish in a magazine a few months ago and now I’ve made…
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Umatilla Rim: Shaking up our World View
Sometimes you have to shake it up. Lie on your back and gaze up at the clouds. Turn…
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Imnaha River: My Happy Place
This river is my happy place. I come here alone to the Imnaha and am renewed…
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