Take Heart
Earth’s weary lovers are tired, perplexed, and battered from all directions. Their hearts have so often been broken. It’s hard to go on, but it...
Halcyon Journey
Winner of the 2024 John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing More than one hundred species of kingfishers brighten every continent but Antarctica. Not...
A Tidal Odyssey
Between Pacific Tides by Edward F. Ricketts and Jack Calvin is arguably the most important book about marine ecology on the Pacific coast of North...
Canyon, Mountain, Cloud
What do we seek and what do we find when we visit parks and protected areas? What does it mean to become so deeply attached...
Something Hidden in the Ranges
We all see the largest features of mountain ecosystems—the impressively rugged peaks, the clear blue lakes, and the extensive forests—but each of these readily visible...
Bearing Witness
Fracking, the practice of shattering underground rock to release oil and natural gas, is a major driver of climate change. The 300,000 fracking facilities in...
Touching This Leviathan
Touching This Leviathan asks how we might come to know the unknowable—in this case, whales, animals so large yet so elusive, revealing just a sliver...
A Place for Inquiry, A Place for Wonder
The H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest is a slice of classic Oregon. Due east of Eugene in the Cascade Mountains, its 15,800 acres encompass the...