a wilderness journal

As I traveled through northern California into Oregon last month, evidence of the severe drought lingering in the west was apparent. Late...

Crater Lake National Park was the last significant stop on my recent trip to the Pacific Northwest . Located about 50 miles north of the ...

The Salish Sea , including Puget Sound, was carved by glaciers during past ice ages. When sea-level began rising about 10,000 years ago...

It was a gorgeous weekend in the Pacific Northwest , the time of year when the warmth of late summer lingers but the first signs of fall a...

Much of the western United States has been on fire this summer. Affected landscapes range from California chaparral to temperate rainfore...

Rocky intertidal habitats can burst with color. In Pacific tidepools, among the most colorful organisms are beautiful sea slugs, or nudibra...

Duxbury Reef is a low-relief intertidal bench at the west end of Bolinas Bay in Marin County in northern California . Tidal seaweeds an...

This month I completed my fourth backpacking trip to the Ventana Wilderness along the Big Sur coast. Actually, my first visit to Ventana s...

Un-opened flower of columbine, Aquilegia formosa . This species was common along the south shore of Caples Lake. In my last post, I wro...

Sierra Nevada wilderness areas in eastern California. Map from www.sierrawild.gov . The Sierras boast a string of wilderness areas fro...