Restoring salmon (and more) in the Skutik River

Ten years ago, the run of alewives in the Skutik (St. Croix) River hovered around 16,000. Though that’s more than … More

Rivers of Ink

“How To Catch A Salmon” appears in the Rivers of Ink: Literary Reflections on the Penobscot, featuring a mosaic of … More

The marshes are rising

Salt marshes exist in a narrow plane between low and high tides. For decades, coastal ecologists have worried that marshes … More

The Fate of the Forests in the Sea

From Captain Cook’s Endeavor to Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, the wrecks of wooden ships and their encounters with one of the … More

City trees, urban forests

On Earth Day 2007, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced MillionTreesNYC, a partnership of the nonprofit New York Restoration … More

On the road with the Dragonfly Mercury Project

In April I traveled to Texas to coordinate a science communication workshop for National Park Service and other federal agency … More

Changing the language of land

Some thoughts on how we talk about the world around us – words that are, at the very least, overused, … More

Discoveries

Scientists like to use the word discover, as if they suddenly know something that has never been known, witnessed, thought … More

Northern White Cedar

Some things are so familiar, so common, that they are often overlooked. Such is the case with northern white cedar … More

A new age of barnacles

Do you know where you belong? How do you decide to “settle down” and make a home? For answers, consider … More