State of Wilderness

Month: January 2016

  • Buescher State Park: Patterns of Place and People

    It was the first Saturday morning of the year, and I was sitting on a small mound of dirt, just to the right of a tree root.  I was watching the water slowly lap at the edge of the lake, and contemplating what it really meant to know a place.  I wondered if the park…

  • 2015: To Sum, and What’s to Come

    Last Christmas, my mom gave me this journal in the above photo, and it turned out to be my favorite item of the entire year.  I carried that with me during all my outdoor adventures and checked off all the birds I saw during the year on the master list in the back, as well…