a wilderness journal

Diamond Peak, at 8744 ft, crowns the western half of the Diamond Peak Wilderness in the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in centra...

Some flowers today from Finley National Wildlife Refuge in the Willamette Valley: Iris were common on an eastern-facing hillside at the...

My current research centers on climate change impacts to tidal wetlands such as salt marshes in the Pacific Northwest. I also worked in thes...

Calochortus luteus  from Santa Cruz Island, CA, 2012. One of my favorite groups of flowers is the genus Calochortus in the lily family (...

One of the educational highlights of my life occurred during my senior year (late 1998) as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz. I enrolled in ...

The sea palm, a rocky intertidal kelp found along western North American shores is one of the most distinctive seaweeds in the world. In sh...

I went to northern California this week for a retreat of sorts and didn’t plan to have a nature adventure. However, by northern California t...

The giant redwood of the western US is among the largest organisms on Earth. It is one of fascinating group of conifers and is the tallest t...

Letharia columbiana from California. Winter in the Pacific Northwest is the season for lichens. Deciduous trees have lost their foliage...

I visited two new Oregon wilderness areas this month, both situated on the western slopes of the Cascades. The sites were similar in terrain...

The three snow-capped peaks of Sisters, each rising to over 10,000 ft, sit right in the middle of the Oregon Cascades. To the north are ...

Over the last month, I made two trips to Finley National Wildlife Monument in the southern Willamette Valley and two to the Cascades in cent...

The Cascades and Sierras are like a string of pearls lying from north to south along the western edge of the United States : Mt. St. Helen...