Coyotes, canary grass, and conservation—oh my! Learn about our wetland restoration monitoring and planning project in the Reed Canyon in Portland, OR.
Local Wetland Restoration in “The Biggest Lab on Campus” | Reed Canyon
roadkill || killroad
A poem of... murderous impulse, re(?)loaded silence, companionship. To be read forward then backward.
An Average of 4,280 m
“I tell you, sometimes this sun and the water’ll put the fear of God right into you.”
Verses from the water’s edges
Little misnomer legged vessel, year-keeper, inviting to the froth-greened march of tides the speckled mollusc pottery, bearing the past into each unbridled surge of future.
Dead Things | Cannery Row
The preservation of the dead, a resurrection by embalming, is one of the most fascinating elements of any history museum, in Cannery Row wrought large and ultimately transformed. The buildings themselves once stood as the skeletons of a dead industry, and now the area is again preserved instead as a celebration of its own revitalization. Beyond memorializing its history alone, it is the very process of doing so, and the successful reanimation of the former industrial cemetery, that are memorialized.
Diving and Aliens | Breakwater Cove
As of June 30th, 2019, I am officially a certified PADI Open Water Diver. I am one of thousands who have completed their first full open water dives in this Monterey cove alone, but I still cannot get over a sense I usually try to suppress as an indulgent fallacy - one of specialness. Of …
Homes—Passing and Many | Up the Alaskan Coast
And to think we saw what was (at least wildly probably) the only instance in all time when the waterfalls were precisely that shape, or an eagle at precisely that angle. That reverence, I suppose, is both the worry and the marvel of a photograph.
Welcome!
Hello, and welcome to mission control for the next several weeks! It seems only natural to start chronicling this project with a bit of summary, so here I thought I'd proffer a bit on what I hope to explore this summer. An American literary tradition of place-based identity through individual relationship with natural beauty reflects …
Rugged, Individual 