Reis Valley and Mudville

 Last week, on the afternoon of Monday July 13th, 2026, I was hiking up the French Ranch Fire Road and saw rainprints in the road. It was 90...

Growing up, I remember my dad telling the tale of how his aunt lost her arm in a nighttime train wreck. It was such a wild story, but withou...

Primary succession is the process of lichen, algae, fungi, and eventually plants establishing themselves on new ground without soil. This co...

I went to Yosemite Valley on Sunday. At the entrance station, I was asked if I and everyone in my car was a citizen or legal resident. I ans...

 It doesn't feel right to let this rainy season fade away without writing about the February storms--especially when they included a rar...

"Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?" --Aldo Leopold There is a USGS topographic map in the 7.5-minu...

Building in hazard zones creates a lot of emotional trauma through evacuations, rescues, property damage, injury, and death. Not just once, ...