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We spent part of the morning watching and listening to the introduction to this year’s Leopold Week . My favorite part was Kim  Blaeser read...

The market is once again going to hell. Monkeypox (or whatever less discriminatory name is bestowed upon it) continues to spread. Congress ...

In his incomparable A Sand County Almanac , Aldo Leopold introduces us to the concept of a land ethic. He writes: “I have purposely presente...

 It was late April several years ago that the Better Half and I made a pilgrimage to Wisconsin’s Sand County and visited Aldo Leopold’s “sha...

It isn't really a January thaw if the temperature doesn't reach at least 32℉, right? I’m feeling as though  we’re coming close to, b...

 Cloudy, dreary, snowing. Bitter cold through New Years weekend. These are indeed the darkest days of the year, both literally and psycholog...

We hope that today, and all the days that follow, will find you healthy, happy and hopeful. Although Solstice brings the longest night of th...

Sunday, June 20, the summer solstice occurs. Tuesday, June 22, days grow shorter, only by seconds to begin with, but shorter, nevertheless. ...

This morning I received a very pleasant surprise, the work of one of my long time environmental heroes was cited in a very recent editorial ...

The Better Half [BH] and the Daughter Person have spent a large part of the past week or so making fruit cakes. Today BH has concocted some ...

How are you holding up under the uncertainty? Would it be nicer and better if we lived in a world where politics and government were less re...

“All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts.The land ethic...

Do you remember, during the last campaign for POTUS, Donald Trump asked " What do you have to lose? " in an appeal for the votes o...

If I had started practicing my fly casting back in April, today would have been a great day for practicing casting into the wind. I hadn...

It is too hot (~92℉ right now) for yard chores and too windy (S ~20 mph) to be standing in a cool trout stream casting a fly. So, since lots...