Naturalism
Northwest Birding Festivals
Witness the great migration
Festivals to inspire your inner birder
By Nathan Dalla Santa
Photos by David Riffle
For bird watchers, spring is a magical time of year...
Frost Flowers
Frost Flowers
Magic happens on the forest floorStory by Sue Madsen
Take a walk on a cold winter day in the Pacific Northwest lowlands and you...
Between Land and Sea
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Between Land and SeaSpringtime tide pools are full of lifeStory by Sue MadsenThe space between sea and land is a mysterious...
In the Footsteps of Bears
Tracking wildlife on the Nooksack RiverBy Mallory Clarke
Photos by Andrew Grubb and David Moskowitz
We park at a slight widening of the narrow Forest Service...
Eagle Watch
Eagle Watch
By Kara Furr
Photo by Gene Davis
Hundreds of eagles from Alaska and northern Canada migrate to the Skagit River each winter to prey on...
Day of Raptors
Cascade foothills offers premier hawk watching
By Sue Madsen
Photos by Joe Meche
I get out of the truck in the slanting light of the late winter...
Liquid light
Bioluminesence! I’d heard of it but had never seen this liquid light. As we paddled along the floating docks that ring the marina, the harbor seals sleeping there got nervous and several plunged into the water and flashed under our boats like green torpedoes.