No Right Way to Be Outside
The first time I tried my hand at astrophotography (shooting the stars, as opposed to shooting stars) was on a clear night just outside Mount Rainier National Park. I was renting a cabin with my wife and her family, a trio of sisters from Colombia...
WE ARE OUTSIDE!
One of my favorite places in the outdoors has multiple trails, several different habitats, and offers spectacular views of a major snow-capped peak. There is an old-growth forest where, among the mossy trees, you are serenaded by the rat-ta-tat-tat of pileated woodpeckers, hoots from barred...
Urban Osprey Nest
This is a sampling of images taken while monitoring an osprey nest in the Union Bay Natural Area in the middle of Seattle, Washington, behind Husky Stadium. Included are some of the neighbors and onlookers. The monitoring is in its fourth month, beginning in early...
Japanese American Activation
After a sometimes rousing, mostly solemn, and often tear-filled memorial ceremony brimming with Japanese and Japanese American influences, a scene unfurled that, to common understanding, may have seemed very un-Japanese. It happened beside an old jail nested in a much larger prison, the Tule Lake...
Chinese Americans in Yosemite
Bill in California Legislature Will Honor Roles Like Tie Sing’s Contributions by yet another community of colorβChinese Americansβto Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada are proposed to be honored by a bill introduced in the California state legislature. Assembly Concurrent Resolution (ACR) 262 was...
‘Every Kid in a Park’ Saved?
WASHINGTON, D.C. β Bending to public outcry, including a strong stance by Next 100 Coalition members, the Department of the Interior is expected to renew the βEvery Kid in a Parkβ program that helps ensure equitable access to U.S. public lands for fourth graders and...
Beyond Bears Ears
This piece appeared in the March 2018 issue of Outside Magazine The last time I visited Yosemite National Park, I made the jaunt to Glacier Point. Standing at the edge of the drop-off, I tried to imagine myself taking in the magnificent vista while discussing...
Taylor Finds Green Orgs Dropping Ball on Diversity
Back in the early 1980s, during an undergraduate environmental studies class, Dorceta Taylor asked a question that would whisk her onto a path leading, in recent years, to groundbreaking research on diversity in environmental organizations. Taylor realized about midway through the course at Northern Illinois...
1,000 Words
My first time as a photographer βin the fieldβ is stored in a place in my memory banks reserved for other indelible firstsβkiss, published story, time I set my eyes upon my daughters. I remember slogging along in a flooded farm field with a small...
CA Moves to Honor Young
Assemblyman Devon Mathis (R-Visalia) recently introduced ACR 142, which would designate a specific portion of State Highway 198 from Three Rivers to Sequoia National Park in Tulare County as the Colonel Charles Young Memorial Highway. Previously, the California state assembly designated as the Buffalo Soldiers...
Kai Lightner Has ‘Next’
BeWild with Kai Lightner The Mountaineers Tue., Feb 20, 7 p.m. 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle 98115 Click Here for Tickets In this era of the perpetual run-up in sports, when the next trend or wunderkind can be spied, not just a mile but...
Outdoor Industry Drags on Inclusion
(NOTE: This Op-Ed originally appeared at Outside) by Glenn Nelson and Teresa Baker Congratulations, Outdoor Retailer. Youβve moved your biannual trade show from a state, Utah, whose leadership is openly hostile to the concept of inclusive public lands and pushed the Trump administration to shrink...
