Smoke billowed in
patches from Hall Mountain on the east side of Sullivan Lake in the Colville
National Forest when my family arrived for our camping stay over... Read More...
So often in my neighborhood
or a trail close to town, I stop to look a majestic, thick-trunked ponderosa up
and down. Sometimes it’s one tree or a group I’ve a... Read More...
She fills her pockets and her pack and her shirt and loiters long, too long, until our companions move on up the trail. Miles from here they will ch... Read More...
Each spring a striking
transformation takes place on mountain glaciers and snowfields across the
Pacific Northwest. Large swaths of the bright, highly reflecti... Read More...
The first time I encountered the mischievous antics of a black-billed magpie was during my first cross-country drive. I was setting up camp in Arches National ... Read More...
When the Grateful Dead sang, “Fire on the Mountain,” they didn’t
mean forest fires. Ten years later James Hansen delivered his global warming report
to Congres... Read More...
The snow is off the roof.
Hopefully we are done scraping our windshields. But we can look out and still
see snow in the high peaks around us.
The presenc... Read More...
Spring is the time to look
for fleeting vernal pools. These habitats are teaming with aquatic and
terrestrial plants and animals—especially with the amphibians... Read More...
For the last five years, the Boise, Idaho, based
Peregrine Fund has collaborated with researchers in Africa on a pilot project
called the African Raptor Databa... Read More...
Conservation groups issued a formal notice in February of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to finalize endangered species pro... Read More...
