If there’s one thing we should all have realized from the near daily news reports of climate change phenomena—from fracturing...
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Two years ago, while walking near the ocean, I heard a noise that sounded like someone prying open an old...
One afternoon, I watched a bald eagle engaged in a wild dance with a glaucous-winged gull. The eagle was on...
“Deserts are where people go when they’re thrown out of Paradise.” —poet-laureate George Bowering, on Okanagan grasslands Climbing upward...
It’s a beautiful morning in Vancouver’s English Bay. A storm has just passed through, shaking up the waters and washing...
On a hot July afternoon, I followed Jim Palmer and Jan Gemmell along an overgrown logging road in the forested...
I’m pretty sure we lost the trail fairly early on. Following the waypoint on the GPS, my daughter Maia and...
In early July of 1791, during a first European exploration of the Salish Sea, Spanish naval officer José María Narváez...
Finally, spring seems to be arriving! Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic, while possibly slowing down and vaccines arriving by the truckload,...
Cruising up the fast-moving Fraser River from Chilliwack, past farmland, small islands and steep forested slopes, we pass a few...
The blue heron stands on a single leg in the shallows of Sidney Island near Victoria, the bird’s shadow barely...
“Chick-a-dee-dee-dee. Chick-a-dee-dee-dee.” I’m sitting outside, soaking up the elusive sliver of morning sunshine in my north-facing yard, hot cuppa joe...
