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Selway River Speaks
Here, there is no cell service. Here, the news is heralded by the wheep wheep wheep of…
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activism | birds | camping | climate change | Nature | Rivers | trees | Wilderness
Spring Renewal in Badger Creek Wilderness
Badger Creek sends her news flowing pell-mell in the snow-melt waters down through a wild valley of…
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camping | climate change | conservation | forests | Nature | oregon | trees | Wilderness
Saving the Big Trees of Badger Creek as Wilderness — A Lucky Break
Puckery sweet huckleberries lined the upper Badger Creek trail within easy reach. Ancient western red cedars flared branches like bird wings. Noble firs, Douglas-firs, and silver firs rose columnar and elegant among Engelmann spruce, western white pine, and mountain and western hemlocks. A Pacific wren dueted with a silvery stream. Badger Creek Wilderness, at 29,000 acres, protects many centuries-old trees and ecosystems of breathtaking diversity.
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camping | conservation | Nature | Rivers
Beloved Metolius River: An Untold Story, the Promise of Wilderness, and the River Democracy Act
“We’ve learned that safeguarding a river requires that people become engaged in the future.”–Tim Palmer, Wild and…
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Trios of Renewal in the Three Sisters Wilderness
On an overnight backpack in the Three Sisters Wilderness, I am musing over trios, triplets, and tryptychs….
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Protect our Wise Forests: the “Immanent Groves”
“What is learned in the Immanent Grove is not much talked about elsewhere. It is said that…
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Reflections on Kingfishers from Mesa Refuge
To write a book is a winding journey leading to many revisions and cuts until the final…
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Let’s Keep it Wild- Lookout Mountain in the Ochocos
Sometimes I don’t reveal favorite places, nor do you. We want to keep them secret within our…
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