The setting sun had cast a pinkish glow on the storm clouds brewing along the horizon near Cedar Key, Florida. My friends and I...

For three weeks in June, I traveled up and then down the eastern seaboard visiting ecological research sites.  From Florida to Maine and back...

“What’s that?” I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). We walked some of the...

Over the weekend, a fellow naturalist friend of mine came to visit the Florida Panhandle from the Big Bend’s Cedar Key. We spent a...

Small, delicate, graceful, the Least Tern embodies all we love about birds and then some. Have you seen their chicks? Adorable. Every spring, we...

Abaco is beautiful. My family and I were staying at the edge of a sand beach, facing a wide flat in a house charmingly...

The air was cooler in the Redwood Grove than the surrounding, sunlit areas of the San Francisco Botanical Garden. The light that did make...

“Well, darn it,” I thought to myself as I stepped out of the office to face a line of traffic. I had big plans...