birds | climate change | conservation | forests | Nature | trees
Tall Tree Climb
Solemnity. A state of grace. Embraced by fir, cedar, and hemlock. I am about 175 feet up…
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Why I Love Wilderness with a big “W”
“To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we…
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birds | climate change | conservation | Nature | New Year
Kingfishers & Why We Need a Naturalist Renaissance
This week, I’m sharing the article I wrote for the July/August Issue of Birdwatching Magazine: “Why we…
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Millicoma Marsh- a positive climate and education story
Soon after I watched a male belted kingfisher arrow straight into a nest hole in an earthen…
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Simplicity and Complexity: Thoughts on Protecting our Forests
“The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean…
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birds | conservation | Democracy | Nature
Finding the Rare in the Familiar
On this past Martin Luther King Day, I had an epiphany about the belted kingfisher– a bird…
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Stand Up for Forests of the Southeast
Across the country from where I live in Oregon, my North Carolina friends Jack Spruill and Andy…
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climate change | conservation | forests | lakes | Nature
Waldo Lake – protect wildlands to save pure waters
Dawn mist flows across Waldo Lake like frosty breath. Mountain hemlocks spire to the sky and embrace…
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climate change | conservation | forests | Nature | Rivers | wildfire
Lostine River Corridor Logging: Lament and a Promise
How often do we circle back to the places we tried to save and could not? What…
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“Wandering” Naturalist Gets Educated
When I read a New York Times article earlier this month that the Entomological Society of America…
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