Wilderness Watcher

Last week the promise of azure skies at higher elevations coaxed me out of my treasure valley inversion. The air was thick with fog and a brown haze as we drove upslope into the Boise foothills. But like an optical illusion the blue sky and warming rays suddenly brushed aside the funk in the air. [...]

My Heart racing and with a palpable thumping in my chest,  quickened breaths and wide straining eyes coax me forward into the grandest forest lands I have ever beheld. Pouring down upon my swiveling head was a rain akin to being in the flow of a river. My ears strained for sounds of impending danger through [...]

Driving up to the Cabinet/Yaak country I was burdened with listening to the continuing tragic and unfolding cataclysm in the Gulf of Mexico. You see as I now find myself cozy and dry in a rainforest of abundant life, the world is collapsing. From 2.5 miles underground and another mile under the sea tens of [...]

Almost missed this little gem of a nest. A small prize for my quiet walk through a mosaic of ancient trees on the north side of the Boise Front Range. Flushing the parent for the second time on my return hike I began to search the grasses. And presto there on the ground was this [...]