March 23, 2021
Some years ago while sitting with a fellow Portlander in a coffee shop in Friday Harbor, a charming town in the San Juan Islands, a Washington State Ferry stop between Anacortes, Washington and Sidney, British Columbia and home to a pod of orcas, a marine science laboratory and a bevy of old salts from Seattle, […]
May 02, 2017
Passing through steeply descending terrain amid dramatic peaks in the Hindu Kush Mountains, south of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, with treacherous cliffs dropping abruptly only yards to our left, my driver and I saw before us a disturbing scene of near disaster. A public bus had crashed into an enormous rock on the right hand […]
April 16, 2017
Can anyone tell me the names of some famous bears?” A pause. “Yogi?” a woman in a halter top asked. I nodded, “That’s right.” “Smokey Bear,” came from a nine-year old in a ball cap. “Yes, that’s a good one. Any others?” I waited for an answer, as a good naturalist should, but when much […]
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