a wilderness journal

I wrote previously about a fascinating intertidal kelp, the sea palm , found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean . A very close relative of t...

Intertidal and offshore pinnacle at Ten Mile State Marine Reserve, Mendocino County, CA, Jan 2015. Friday was a bright sunny winter da...

Costaria costata , 2014. The Monterey Bay area is one of the coastal gems of California : strikingly beautiful marine life, diverse ...

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 ...