a wilderness journal

Salmon River Western Oregon is so green, especially from the perspective of a naturalist who moved back to California recently. Last w...

In the previous post , I discussed our attempt to understand how salinity and flooding affect tidal wetland plant growth. A final question ...

Our survey work in Oregon 's coastal wetlands showed patterns of species distribution suggesting how and which species might be vulnera...

Which factors affect the distribution of tidal wetland plants? Will these gradients shift with climate change? In the last post, I beg...

Marsh and scrub-shrub wetlands, Poole Slough, Yaquina estuary. This summer I finished up three and a half years as an ecologist with th...

Broken Top with the southern-most of the Green Lakes in the foreground. Last week we took the kids on their first backpacking trip to t...

This post is the final of 3 about my trip in early July to the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island . Heading out of Bowman Bay in ...

This post continues the narrative of my trip in early July to the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island. Our second night on the Olympic p...

The Hamma Hama River with the Mt. Skokomish wilderness in the distance. After a few years living in the Pacific Northwest, I finall...

There is a great hike in the vicinity of Iron Mountain in the Willamette National Forest. I first visited last year about this time with a g...

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