Pacific Wren: Virtuoso of Spring in the Ancient Forest
My ears are chiming with Pacific wren song long after I’ve left the “Old-Growth Trail” in McDonald…
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birds | forests | kingfisher | Nature | trees
Two Pines: Two Ways of Gratitude
All things counter, original, spare, strange;Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle,…
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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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birds | butterflies | Nature | ocean | trees
The Woman Who Slept in a Tree
Far away on the west coast of Mexico where the sea gentles inward to form a cove…
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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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How to Defeat the Biomass and Logging False Solutions to Climate Change
“COP26 is full of false solutions, and we need to make sure they’re integrating real solutions, because…
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conservation | forests | Nature | trees | wildlife
Witness Tree
“One tree, by being deeply wounded,Has been impressed as Witness Tree”— Excerpt from poem “Beech” in A…
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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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Nature | trees | Wilderness
Wallowas Wilderness Wisdom
“In nature, nothing exists alone.” – Rachel Carson After a week of smoke-bound home life, the air…
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