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The Canadian Rockies are large enough to make a bird list feel ridiculous. A mountain can hold forests, rivers, cliffs, and alpine slopes in one view, while the birds move through each place on their own schedule. This is a starting list for looking more closely, not a promise of ten sightings in one day.…
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A family of four completed a difficult residential transfer Friday after successfully moving nearly every function of their suburban home into Campsite 22.
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Something is happening in your yard at 2:13 every morning. The garbage lid is crooked. The bird feeder is empty. One tomato has been bitten once and then abandoned in a way that feels disrespectful.
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A Turkey Vulture is difficult to market. The head is bare and red. The diet is dead animals. When overheated, it may defecate on its own legs.
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A barred owl perched above a local hiking trail confirmed Thursday that it had been aware of passing hikers for several minutes before any of them noticed it.
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The woods become a different place after dark. During the day, a noise in the brush is probably an animal.
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The great outdoors contains mountains, lakes, forests, deserts, and several million square miles of places where a human can stand.
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Drive across much of the upper Midwest and the landscape can feel broadly legible. Rolling farmland.
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A 13-year-old Scout asked troop leaders Sunday to reverse several years of advancement and return him to Webelos Scout status after arriving at a weekend campout without a sleeping bag.
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There is a common tree-identification system in North America. If it has needles, call it a pine tree.
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The first problem is the word **tree**. You walk into an aspen grove and see hundreds or thousands of pale trunks.