birds | conservation | Nature | wildlife
What Flocking Snow Geese Tell Us
The snow drifts, rises, falls, settles, swirls, and becomes one peninsula of birds on Summer Lake Wildlife…
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Poems on the Cusp of Spring
THIS IS HOW TO SAY METOLIUS Say song sparrow flittingAmong ocean sprayNot yet leafing Say dipper flexingComical…
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Spring Nudges the Rimrock
Death camas stems burst from the soil like some kind of verdant chicanery, here where the snow…
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conservation | Nature | oregon | Rivers | wildlife
“Sitting and Whittling”- Beaver Wisdom
“All was a-shake and a-shiver—glints and gleams and sparkles, rustle and swirl, chatter and bubble. The Mole…
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Refugia for Big Trees
“Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends…
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Poems for a New Day
“For there is always light,if only we’re brave enough to see itIf only we’re brave enough to…
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Hovering
Do you feel this holding of breath? The desire to exhale? Do you feel this headwind that…
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Raven Nook
For three full days I hesitated. I’d look at the email, start my response, and falter. The…
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conservation | forests | Nature | trees
The Key to a Long Life
Grow slowly. Heed the wisdom of long-lived trees. Heed the scientists who study the ancient trees and…
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Poems and Ponders of Thanksgiving
A month ago, I wrote of gathering the strength of the wilds to prevail in a vote…
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