Reis Valley and Mudville

The first time I drove through Samuel P. Taylor State Park, it was a busy weekend about ten years ago.* The road was narrow and bumpy, and t...

What you've all been waiting for--part III of the ongoing saga. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I suggest reading Part I...

We need to step it up a little. If we are in the most severe drought on record, then we need some better tips than "turn off the water ...

Two years ago, I wrote California Utilities Still Freeloading on Independent Power Producers , which you really should read because it is a ...

The first rain of the season. The last day of summer. Tomorrow at 1:44 pm, the sun will be directly over the Earth's equator, marking th...

Touch any water anywhere, and you are touching all the water on the planet. Aside from water locked in tanks and bottles and closed geologic...

Photo of me taken by Sacha Heath in 2003, back when the Lyell Glacier (behind me) was still active, as it has been for about the last 40...