What a pleasure it was to once again be in a place where nature is wild and the sounds of the natural world dominate. That was the gist of my recent hikes up and down Mount Philo, an isolated peak ...

I saw the biggest raven I have ever seen sitting in a tree outside my dining room window the other day, so I decided to write about ravens! The common raven has accompanied humans around for centuries ...

In 1989, I had two experiences during a vacation to Washington state. One was walking through the Hoh Rain Forest on the Olympic Peninsula, where moss-covered trees tower above a dreamlike, primordial ...