The Seattle-based conservation nonprofit focusing on birds has received a lot of attention, including in local and national news media, because it is removing “Audubon” from our organizational name. This is not a helpful place for the spotlight to remain trained. If the focus of...
This is the third travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness” As billowy powder flocked the countryside, Sassia and I squeezed through the Bitterroot Mountains, winding astride Gibbons Pass, then...
This is the second travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 1, “Nez Perce Trail: BIPOCs & Battlefields & Bears.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” Until recently, I’d refused to even contemplate the phrase “loved to death” when applied to...
This is the first travelogue in a 3-part series. Read part 2, “Gentrification of Wilderness.” Read part 3, “Chasing Liberty on the Nez Perce Trail” It finally dawned on us after we walked into the La Tinga restaurant in downtown Billings, Montana. There, we met...
Imagine something meaningful to you and a person related to that thing who’s done something despicable. Then imagine naming some aspect of your meaningful something after that despicable person. Like naming an investment club after Bernie Madoff, film festival after Harvey Weinstein, or block-watch after...
This photo gallery contains highlights from my tracing of the Nez Perce National Historic Trail with my daughter, Sassia, in late May and early June of 2021. The trail follows the heroic 1877 flight of non-treaty Nez Perce bands, which were pursued by the U.S....
