I’m off on my second visit to Madagascar, this time as a volunteer researcher at Centre ValBio at Ranamafana National Park. Madagascar is an enchanting place – particularly of you have a naturalist’s bent. The wildlife is amazingly diverse. It exhibits both a high species richness and a high rate of endemic species. The island […]
Published in Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/springtime-is-for-salamanders-and-journeys-of-discovery/ Warming spring days cause many Northwesterners to reach for binoculars and look up for birds. My inclination is to look down. It’s time to find salamanders, encounters that could lead you to adventures, a career, and your tribe. Sure – bird watching is popular. That’s because it’s easy. Birds flit,
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There was something, however, in the appearance of this machine which caused me to regard it more attentively. While I gazed directly upward at it (for its position was immediately over my own) I fancied that I saw it in motion. In an instant afterward the fancy was confirmed. Its sweep was brief, and of
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It seemed like a grand adventure to me. “You want to go where for vacation to do what?” asked my wife, Connie. Just stick to the basics, I thought. “Travel to the Dominican Republic and then west to the border of Haiti; get up into the forest highlands; and try to catch a rare, primitive,
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Eighty feet above me, fingers and toes adhering to thin edges on the vertical rock face, Dick approached the summit of the 9,415 ft. tall Mt. Stuart. The reputation of the north ridge as a stellar climbing objective was clear as we ascended the sharp ridge pinched between two massive glaciers. The foot of the