Here we are, another week of the Nature Writing Challenge and the topic is a memorable insect moment on public lands. If you are like me and have spent a fair amount of time on public lands, you have your fair share of insect stories. And I bet is safe to say that most of…
This week on the Nature Writing Challenge, the quest is an elevation gain that inspires adventure. Thinking about this for a short time, I realized that for me that means the side scramble. You know when you have been in a green corridor forever or make it to a pass after slogging it up a…
This week’s topic for the #NatureWritingChallenge is: “How can our Public Lands, either as a whole or an individual park, better recognize and honor the Native history?” My first thought was, “Give it all back.” My second thought was, I am not the right person to be answering. Who Should Be Answering It is…
The eager kindergartener in front of me was pulling her backpack on wheels behind her as we made our way up from the middle falls to the upper falls at Wallace Falls State Park. I turned to the 5th grader dragging his feet slowly up the steep steps behind me with a pokey attitude and…
Have a told you about my dear friend Laura Wild? I know I have mentioned her in general terms in posts like The Definition of Courage but I don’t think I have talked about her directly by name. I want to take this opportunity as part of the #NatureWritingChallenge to share a little of our…
This might be stretching the definition of the Nature Writing Challenge but nuclear energy can be natural and this is a national historic landmark. Plus, the kids thought it was pretty cool. The topic for the challenge tonight is my favorite part of National Park history but since I already wrote The National Parks: America’s…