natural connections

In just the last week or two, new life has exploded in the Northwoods. To my brain, it feels like a burst of fireworks. Instead of embers sp...

We were supposed to be focused on birds as the group walked along the gravel road north of Grandview, but in the damp air I smelled somethin...

The birds were quiet, but a tangle of dead trees squeaked and chirped in damp gusts as we hiked back from High Falls in Tettegouche State Pa...

On a cool morning in mid-April, two friends and I ambled down a gravel road toward their family cabin. What we’d planned as a quick drive to...

The tannin-stained waters of the Cascade River churned frothily into the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. Upstream, impressive torrents o...

A small strip of open water reflected the blazing sunset sky. Although my partner and I dug our toes into a sand beach at the Day Lake Recre...

Turkey vultures and black vultures circled above the trees. As expected, I’d spotted my first turkey vulture of the year the day after I wro...