As 2022 comes to an end, I am finally returning to my blog after a long hiatus. As pre-pandemic programming has slowly reemerged, I decided it was finally time to dust off my blog to share [...]
Two weeks ago, before the first autumn storm arrived in Northern California, the yellows and golds of the season lit up the canopies of big-leaf maples and black oaks in the iconic valley of [...]
Recently I moved my blog into an entirely redesigned website (more on that soon!). With this move, there are a few housekeeping tasks including providing a coherent way to view a previous blog [...]
This past spring and summer I was immersed in learning and writing about the benefits of nature and wilderness for youth, for science, for parks and for everyone. I attended a summit at UC [...]
According to a new report, the struggling and underfunded California state park system can transform into a model of sustainability for park systems worldwide. This new system will be [...]
Last year in February I wrote a story for BayNature.org on a significant but little known historical site tucked away in the rolling hills above the Russian River Valley in what is now Austin [...]
In 1864 a forward-thinking United States Senator from California by the name of John Conness introduced a bill to protect Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa grove of giant sequoias for all time. [...]
A celebrity lives in a park above the Hollywood Hills amid a thick cover of chaparral and oak woodlands. He has helped rally the public to understand the plight of wildlife living on the urban [...]
I started this blog in 2007 as a way to organize my thoughts and learn about promising solutions relating to topics that interest and concern me – social innovation, social justice, public lands [...]
