backyards | butterflies | conservation | flowers | Nature
Everywhere is Home
Home. Wake to the whir of rufous hummingbird wings outside our bedroom window. Rise to feed our…
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conservation | hiking | Nature | Rivers
Dave Richie and friends: Why the Appalachian Trail has Soul and Body today
Last Saturday, I listened to one fine conservationist after another sharing stories about my dad Dave Richie,…
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Heroic Mothers: Watch this Elephant Save Her Baby and then Buy a Cup of Certified Elephant Friendly Tea ™
As every mother knows, we would lift mountains to save our children. On this Mother’s Day, I…
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birds | conservation | Nature | trees
Redwoods Revelation
Varied thrushes chord the evening shafts of light with one note songs. Alone in the Rockefeller Forest…
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climate change | conservation | Democracy | Nature | Philosophy | Wilderness | wildlife
America the “Refugium” – as defined by Barry Lopez- and other revelations from my bookshelf…
I have a winter ritual. I start the day cozied up by the wood stove, nestled on…
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Remembering Ponderosa 58
I will never forget leaning in close to its great, red-gold trunk, pressing my cheek against the…
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Elk Calf Rescue on New Year’s Day 2018- How to save a life and make fences wildlife-friendly too
We would never have saved the elk calf entangled in a barbed wire fence if we hadn’t…
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birds | conservation | Nature | trees | wildlife
Of Varied Thrushes, a Douglas Squirrel, and a Bib for the Calico Cat
Every shortening day, the drama unfolds out our back window in the pine woods of Bend, Oregon….
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conservation | Nature | Rivers | trees | wildlife
Saving Ponderosa 58
The ancient ponderosa of the upper Imnaha River bears a ring of blue paint on the front…
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birds | conservation | Nature | ocean | Philosophy
What Makes a Halcyon Day?
When I set out to follow the belted kingfisher, I started with the intrigue of a definition….
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