a wilderness journal

A controversial  opinion piece on extinction and biodiversity conservation was published Thanksgiving week in the Washington Post by an ev...

Our final Yosemite destination last weekend was Hetch Hetchy, my second visit to this remarkable and controversial valley at the northern ...

I’m not a fan of crowded trails, but the trail from Yosemite Valley up through Vernal and Nevada Falls is one of my favorite destinations...

Rocky intertidal at Pt Pinos, with pelicans cruising in  from the east. The Monterey Peninsula juts out into the Pacific Ocean at the...

I’m presently in Washington for a research trip, but the weekend provides some non-work time to explore the magical Pacific Northwest . I ...

There are few coastal areas along the west coast as urbanized as San Francisco Bay . But tied as our species is to land, the water of the...

Portrait of Alexander Humboldt by Mathew Brady. Image source . Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most pioneering naturalists to hav...

Folger Peak from the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness. After a hot California summer (one for which I was admittedly away for a decent portio...

A flowering ocotillo in the western Arizona desert, April 2017. Primary productivity in desert environments is low. Water is the lim...