Wolves?

From The Voice, by yours truly, February 21, 2008: Quietly, day by day, by hoof and paw, wilderness is returning to Oregon. Moose, long absent from Oregon, are back in Wallowa County. They’ve trickled in to Northeast Oregon from Washington, where their numbers are growing. Another, less popular, wild animal is also making inroads into [...]

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Snow

A winter writing… column from February 7, 2008 of The Voice: In 1885, Wilson Bentley became the first person to photograph a snow crystal. By 1885, he had tried several techniques, and eventually succeeded by attaching a camera to a microscope and using a long shutter speed. He went on to make over 5,000 photographs [...]

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Coyote

Bored of columns? Here’s another… January 24, 2008 in The Voice. People actually read this one, I think. As I remember it, he said something like “that’d be a perfect shot, I wish I had my rifle.” I was new to the Grande Ronde Valley, and sharing a work truck with an Oregonian. I raised [...]

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Tracking

Yet another column… this one in The Voice on November 29, 2007: Piercing cold and ridgelines glowing white in the moonlight. Cloaked firs and pines wait for the wind to undress new coats and send them shimmering down. Snow has fallen. Up there in the high places there are stories being written. Reading them requires [...]

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Altitudinal

Here’s a column published in The Voice on November 7, 2007: Unfamiliar chips and trills from the brush, a flash of white tail feathers. Here at a time when most birds have fled Oregon for Spanish-speaking climes, there is a new bird prowling the lawns of La Grande – the dark-eyed junco. You will usually [...]

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Overwintering

Here is a column printed in The Voice on October 25, 2007. Change is in the air as autumn fails; the leaves blush a goodbye, and silence settles. Gone are the songs of morning warblers. The birds themselves have faded, too, either leaving us for warmer climes or molting out of their bright feathers into [...]

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Voice column, Oct 11 2007

I write a column for Eastern Oregon University’s newspaper, The Voice. (they claim they will update the website soon, with archives and all…). Here’s a column. I’ll add some more when i get the time. This is what i submitted to them, so there may be minor edits in the printed version. You don’t have [...]

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