250 years old seems a good minimum, and then five years to lose all the needles. Then a Douglas fir is ready for a second life. Where else is a young eagle […]
Old Trees Must Die
Reading the Book of the World
You know, any way you look at it, off to the south over the deer trail… … or straight up (from the deer trail, sending the camera scrambling to dim the glare) […]
Imagine the Technological Possibilities!
Imagine if you could regulate heat loss and roof melting simply by switching from a flat roof to a roof covered in river rock, or a lightweight approximation of it. The insulating […]
Birth and Life in the Grasslands
In the grasslands of the intermountain west, a seed doesn’t need to be planted in the soil. It falls into a crack in the living skin of the earth, which grows over […]
The Hidden Water of the Grasslands
A grassland slope… Big Bar Esker (An Esker is a river that ran upside down beneath glacial ice.) Flowers in Big Bar Lake. Grassland ground up on the esker… That’s not […]
Writing With Light
The blue sky? The yellow bird? The green pine? Female American Goldfinch in a Lodgepole Pine the Beetles Missed Big Bar Lake Hardly. Those are properties of human sight, and of American Goldfinch […]
