Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! This week we give thanks to Leslie Patten for contributing the following story to Writing the Wild. Leslie lives on the eastern side of Yellowstone National Park in a remote valley that is home to wolves, grizzly bears, cougars and elk. She is the author of The Wild Excellence: Notes from Untamed America. She …
Author: Lisa
Agents of Change
A fellow wildlife biologist once told me that if you don’t write it down, it’s like it never happened. Throughout my career I have filled dozens of notebooks detailing my observations of all things wild. I’ve transcribed those notes onto data sheets, which I then entered into databases. Those databases were ultimately backed up on …
Glacier Bay, Alaska
Sitka spruce and western hemlock forests draped in moss and lichen slope steeply toward the sea. The forest forms a nearly impenetrable wall giving the illusion that it is sealed from that which bares its reflection, but the illusion that one has nothing to do with the other is false. These elements - the sea …
A mindful moment
John and I just arrived home after a week in Glacier Bay National Park in southeastern Alaska. Having never been to Alaska, I was awed by its beauty and wildness. My original intention with this week's post was to write a photo essay about the trip, but I learned so much about park that it …
Magic Cicadas
Somewhere outside the D.C. metropolitan area a bumbling cicada has smacked a suburban dad in the face while he is mowing his lawn. Dad leaps into the air and swats at the cicada. The cicada, a female, is attracted to the hum of the push lawn mower, mistaking its drone for a chorus of males. …
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