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I went overnight camping aways up a trail for the first time in several years. We climbed up a 12,432 foot peak. Most of the snow was gone, and the flowers were out. We camped in the bristlecone pine, limber...

I put my nose up against some blue irises to smell their grape scent. Suddenly, yellow and gold lines were curving away from me. A snake had been sunning on the rock by the irises, and I had startled it....

The Dervais family grow enough food on their yard to feed themselves and to make a living. Click here to see u-tube video of them. Click here for their FB page. Click here for their website. Here are books on...

Please call your Representative. Otherwise laws that protect dolphins, water quality, food safety, and health can be overturned. Also, you can email Congress by clicking here.  

  Elk with velvet green antlers at 7000 ', shooting star flower by the creek (with its petals/sepals bent back, the neat red zigzag at its mouth, stamens poking out and down, waiting for the buzzing of a bee to...

Write letters to the editor. Call & email your Representative and Senators. Here it shows how TPP will prevent regulations on food safety, Wall Street, water pollution, and global warming. Here it shows how parts of the TPP and Fast...

Wallflowers, penstemons, bluebells, rose bushes, cinquefoil, a coyote striding thru a prairie dog campus, a spotted towhee that was so tame, it didn't fly away from the bush by the edge of the path as we walked below it and...

Last Sunday fields of pasque flowers, a few larkspurs, and lots of sand lilies at 8000 feet in mixed ponderosa/ doug fir forest. A downy woodpecker and lots of frog calls. from little pocket ponds in the rock.

I just saw 7 ducklings. They shake their heads. Their mom tilts her head, quacks , and herds them from behind.

A customer from Bainbridge Island, Washington, told me that 4 baby orcas were recently born near there. This good news as the population of orcas thee had not been doing so well.

  Yesterday, a great blue heron flew over me as I biked. Then two hawks swooped over a runner ahead of me. Recently, a hawk flew along with me, just above my head, on my bike for several seconds. Then...

In the last few days swallows returned to nests under the bridge on the bike path. A friend at Mammoth Mountain CA, heard the long eerie call of the common loon and the drumming of a Williamson sapsucker on April...

New palm oil plantations threaten orangutans, elephants, rhinos, and cause global warming. Write a letter to demand change here. Read about it here. See which products to avoid here.

Proposed nickel-copper-sulfide mines threaten the rivers, Lake Superior, wildlife, and the Chippewa native communities. Over 1,000 acres of wetlands would be destroyed, and the fish and wild rice would be threatened. Also, oppose a land swap of federal national forest...

In camping out, the students remind me of the cardboard shantytown that students built and lived in 26 years ago to pressure the CU adminstrators to divest from companies doing business with apartheid South Africa. Here is an article on...

Protestors arrested at BP today. Last night, I saw a great documentary, The Great Invisible, about the oil, shrimp, and oyster workers harmed by BP oil. People are out of work, hungry, and not receiving support from BP. Yet some...

Democracy Now shows an article on and interviews with Galeano. He fled military dictatorships because he didn't want to be in a jail ," to lay in a cemetery... as death is very boring" . He wrote of "our possible...

Tell EPA to ban current neonicotinaoid pesticides, not just limit some future ones! Neonicotinoids kill bees butterflies, and ladybugs. This recent article shows the public relations tactic of the EPA pretending to regulate in the future while allowing more neonicotinoid...

A neighbor just got a load of compost to fill the raised beds he has been digging and framing. Here is an article about how raised bed gardens give veggies plus stuff for bees and butterflies.