a celebration of Minnesota’s rich and diverse natural environment

The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.
Ellen Burns Sherman

the annual explosion of bluebells puts Carley State Park on the map

audio narrative: Afton on the Stay-at-Home-Order

Taking a walk in early spring and thinking about the coming limits to our freedom to move.

audio narrative: Walk in the Time of Coronavirus

A late winter walk at Lake Maria State Park filled with bird song and melting ice.

password: bluebell

https://youtu.be/qIo32VA3pmg

Flower Power at Nerstrand Big Woods or: how I learned to say "Cutleaf Toothwort" without giggling

spring song

The volume’s turned up at William O’Brien as I take a half-day’s walk on muddy trails, ears open to the

wild river afternoon

solo snowshoe surprises https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBsWIa0LxjI