I needed a social media cleanse after an online argument with a kid convinced everyone between the east coast and the Rockies resents biodiversity and wild places. It wasn’t true, I said, listing off initiatives to remove dams, restore habitat, protect and restore endangered species, manage invasives, provide outreach and education opportunities, and advocate for… Read More Last Best Streams- #322
They came in fits and starts, given a cold snap and wet weather earlier this spring. Then one afternoon, while mowing the lawn, I found an empty exoskeleton clinging to the grass. Then another. Every two or three paces you’d see one. A week or two later they were clinging to the chicken coop, crawling… Read More Cicadas, we hardly knew ye.
It’s the last day of 2023, and the sun can’t decide if it’ll come out. Chores are finished, and in a bit I’ll kindle a fire and start the hoppin’ john for a low-key evening with the dog and a toast to the new year. I’ve earned it. This last year’s been a whirlwind of putting out… Read More 2023 in the books.
I like when tall clouds catch light from beyond the horizon, and finding bumblebees asleep on blue spires of lobelia. It rained a bit, cooled off a bit, and the leaves are just beginning to drop- so I figured it was an opportune time to catch up with the local trout stream. The water’s still… Read More First of October.
That time when rivers and streams are at their lowest, when fish- for the most part- are done spawning and growing for the year. When the leaves start falling in temperate climates, kicking off the base of the food chain in headwater streams. When we can look forward to spring rains. I took a break… Read More It’s a new water year
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