Stars above silhouetted trees

Rest well
Dream sweetly

Sun setting, heading home, Olympic foothills silhouetted

Heading home

Western dogwood blossoming

Dogwood blossoming at Kul Kah Han

"Our mission is to inspire and guide our regional community in the appreciation, cultivation, and inclusion of Pacific Northwest plants in the home garden."

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Duwamish River salmon get help from 'floating wetlands' built by students By Macey Wurm Reporting for West Seattle Blog After eight weeks of planning and construction, 9th graders from Maritime High School are bringing their floating-wetlands pilot project to a close in We...

" Floating wetlands were developed as a tool for places, like the lower Duwamish River, that have been extensively modified in a way that makes restoration of the natural shoreline difficult."

- Northwest Maritime

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The CryptoNaturalist share.google/3B4MRzj92fBj...

Moss as a path to inner peace poem by The CryptoNaturalist

Defensive Rewilding

"Defense ministries tasked with contributing to national carbon-reduction objectives are expected to find value in rewilding besides the tactical military benefits..."

Researchers propose ‘rewilding’ Europe’s borderlands to repel enemies share.google/7d05qRcsxoLF...

Salish Sea waving around rocks at the western edge

"Under the aegis of the Bureau of Land Management, the Cattle Point garden project will combine traditional Indigenous knowledge with recent botanical research, working with families that cultivated parts of San Juan Island for centuries before Spanish and British sailors set eyes on our shores."

Sea-crafted stones on beach sand

Summer in a Day Podcast Episode · Storying Land Podcast · 11 February · 40min

"Storying Land is about how we humans relate to the land through stories: whether myths from Turtle Island or abroad, a story of resources, personal experiences with land, and others."

Here are the listening links:

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"Glen Canyon Dam has gone from being a resource to a liability, he said, and these impending problems present an opportunity for redemption on a grand scale."

I think/feel this is a beautiful thing, precious, especially timely with the lunar mission above us all.

Even if we humans are only calming, focusing, and blessing ourselves, there is mighty good in that, which might ripple too.

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang YouTube video by The On Being Project

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things..."

An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests. Fungi enthusiasts are doing damage control A rogue mushroom is ripping through North American forests, after escaping from cultivation. As it runs riot, mushroom enthusiasts are rescuing the native fungi in its path.

"...whether that's decomposition, whether it's mutualisms with plants that enable trees to grow, whether it's food for animals. There are all these things that fungi as a kingdom do, and if we don't conserve those, then the whole system can start to decline."

How oolichan is connecting Nisg̱a’a youth to the land | The Narwhal The return of the oolichan to Ḵ’alii Aksim Lisims is the first sign of spring on Nisg̱a’a territory. During a three-day camp, Ging̱olx youth connect with saak

"...kids already inhabit a world of science — it’s just not necessarily labelled as such. Their families hunt and fish and, in paying attention to seasonal changes and landscape-level details, they’re acutely aware of the fundamental connections within ecosystems, she explains."

Jesse Welles with Joan Baez - No Kings - Live at The Fillmore - San Francisco - 11/04/25 YouTube video by Don Farnham

Keeping singing...

"If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud!"

The Ancient Art of Decorating Eggs | Folklife Today If you have decorated an egg, then you have participated in one of the oldest decorative arts. Archaeologists have long known of decorated ostrich shell pieces and empty eggs in Africa of great antiqu...

"If you have decorated an egg, then you have participated in one of the oldest decorative arts."

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"A story not only of what has been lost, but of what eventually will find a way to flourish and endure.

...It is a realm whose beauty, like that of the windows of the Sun Room, has been refracted through brokenness, then sharpened by yearning and loss into something miraculous."

“What I really loved about the story pole is it celebrates and recognizes the original peoples and symbolizes our responsibility, as the community now, to care for our environment from the mountains to the sea.” Haakanson said. “They have this symbolism embedded in the story pole.”

From Museum Drawers, Scientists Uncover Our Sooty Past From the Spring 2018 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. So an art historian and an orni­thologist walk into a museum... It sounds like the setup for a punchline, but when Carl Fuldner and...

"So an art historian and an orni­thologist walk into a museum…

It sounds like the setup for a punchline, but when Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay went looking through the specimens in the underground archives of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, what they uncovered was not a joke."

Watercolor of Steller's Jay from Snoqualmie tribe Ancestral Land Movement

"Interested in birding opportunities as a way to practice mindful and respectful recreation? Check out the calendar of upcoming events hosted by Birds Connect Seattle, a support of the Snoqualmie Tribe Ancestral Lands Movement:
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Flying in Place (the author's first novel) struck me deeply. I think I have my reader's copy somewhere. I've read her stories for over the years and gotten to know her some through Facebook.

Thank you, I will give that a try! Unless, you can send me the link they sent you.

I read a teaser of the story, and look forward to finishing it.

Wildlife to replace historical figures on banknotes The public will help choose which animals and birds will appear on the Bank of England's new notes.

"The wildlife of the UK is not separate from our culture. It sits in our football crests, our folklore, our coastlines and our childhoods. Giving it space on something as symbolic as our currency feels both overdue and significant."

It's in the January/February 2026 edition of Asimov's. I'm trying to figure out how to get a copy.

Home - Asimov’s Science Fiction share.google/34xOF2g0hBkw...

Buried Indigenous Seed Capsules in Seattle Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

"Part public art, part ecological gesture, the capsules are part of Mark Brest van Kempen’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, which traces the path of Ravenna Creek as it flows under the streets and sidewalks of the city."

Yes, That’s When by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer I like my body when I’m in the woods and I forget my body. I forget that arms, that legs, that nose. I forget that waist, that nerve, that skin. And I aspen. I mountain. I river. I stone. I leaf. I path. I flower. I like when I evergreen, current and berry. I like when I mushroom, avalanche, cliff. And everything is yes then, and everything new: wild iris, duff, waterfall, dew.

This poem appeared in hush by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, published by Middle Creek Publishing, 2020.

Truffle Hunting Site Stewardship: What Happens to the Forest When We Love a Place to Death What really happens underground when truffle hunting sites get heavy foot traffic and what responsible truffle dog handlers need to know about site stewardship.

"The dog needs fresh ground to work. The forest needs time to recover. The answer isn’t to choose one over the other. It’s to have enough locations that neither is ever asked to give more than it can."

I hope to truffle hunt in partnership with my next dog.

Susan Palwick quote about beauty and gratitude

Seeking Beauty – From Earth to the Stars share.google/hOiFDp4XtPsY...