In 2013 I began writing a series of essays based on the concept of the home-place. The first of those essays, At the Counting...

The erosion of the American wild, while driven by development and resource extraction, is primarily a function of our mindset. We have...

The abandonment of the American wild has happened in my lifetime. Trail heads at which I fought for a parking space fifteen years ago are...

This alienation is particularly profound in American women. While women in the United States have met or surpassed men in the workplace...

The myth of female helplessness has been compounded and exasperated by a lack of wilderness education for girls and women. While learning...

What kind of recognition do you get when you are a pioneering female paleontologist in the 17th Century? One that has been called the...

Part of human nature, of how we experience ourselves in the world, is linked to the human sense of scale and our ability or inability to...

After the Woman’s Guide was released in 2016 it was immediately clear that there was also a gap on the shelf where an outdoor book for...

It is raining. After a year of wildfire and historic snowfall the rain has come like our corner of Oregon has not seen in over a hundred...

Last week I watched as historic amounts of snow fell, engulfing curbs and walkways, drifting in feet against fences and obscuring cars....

There are days my wings are clipped and my tethers keep me close to home. On these days I stand longingly at the window looking at the...

Time. Of all the nonrenewable resources in our lives it is the one that people seem the most acutely aware of wasting and the least...

Today, a reminder that things are not always what they seem and that the touch of humanity runs deeper than we like to believe. And that...

Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, derives its name from the Latin sol, meaning sun, and stit, stand, or stationary. Most of...

It is easy to scorn the most abundant and least beautiful among us. Easy to forget that even such a lowly bird as the common starling in...

After years of drought and record high temperatures, a delayed start to the rainy season has left Oregon desiccated. Stream beds are dry....

Every so often I receive a piece of information that so entirely startles me, so perfectly rearranges my perception of a thing that I...