a wilderness journal

In some respects, red seaweeds (Phylum Rhodophyta) are the most interesting of the three major groups of marine algae inhabiting coastal s...

Monday 26 Feb 2018 : Big Sur revealed its different faces today as a morning overcast sky gave way to drizzle, rain by early afternoon, an...

The last week has been rather warm in California , and today was exceptionally so. I admit that the warmth is very pleasant, but it is way ...

Giant kelp beneath the kayak near the Monterey Breakwater. A good series of low tides often falls around the turn of the new year and s...

General Grant tree in the Grant Grove, Kings Canyon National Park, 2014. California is a land of superlatives, and especially so botan...

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 ...