Backpacking can teach one many things. Persistence. Planning. Decision making. Confidence. Stoicism. And of course, a deeper awareness and appreciation of our home planet. For
Each fall, the Xerxes Society for Invertebrate Conservation counts western monarch butterflies as they migrate throughout California. And for many years now, each fall the
Few memoirs are as aptly titled as Anne LaBastille’s Woodswoman. Published in 1976, the book is the first in a four-volume autobiographical series written by
Several chapters into Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables, zoologist and science writer Jo Wimpenny explains that, as a very young girl, she sometimes
For the second time in the past several years, a federal appeals court has blocked construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline that would carry natural
In 1963, Norman Dyhrenfurth, a German-born climber raised in Austria, Switzerland, and later, the U.S., led the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest by an
San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexico is considered the cultural capital of Chiapas, the southernmost Mexican state that borders with Guatemala. I hadn’t planned