When we imagine national parks, the images are awe-inspiring: Gravity-defying sandstone arches, two-hundred-foot tall coastal redwoods, four hundred-mile long Kentucky…
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”Ralph Waldo Emerson Several hundred feet below the continental divide, I paused…
"A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures…
“I think we can make it” are surely an adventurer’s last words. That’s what I told my friend Josie, as…
An enormous snag in the Clearwater Mountains When I was a teenager, my mother painted leafless trees on the walls…
Joe Biden moves into the White House in four days. Until then, President Donald Trump has a brief window to…
Making Friends in Public Imagine a world where strangers greet you when you see them, where you can trust your…
The following has been adapted and edited from a journal on May 23, 2020. I have been visiting one park…
In the span of two months, most of my routines and expectations about work, leisure, and community have been uprooted.…
At the beginning of 2019, I made a goal to identify 100 species of birds in the wild. The first…