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This blog started as a letter but ended up being a post!  I wrote this to two wonderful and eco-conscious women in my life.  They’re fierce protectors of animals, and the one known as, “Lizard,” happens to be a crustacean aficionado.  We have spent many days on the water hunting lobster, and we have delightful conversations about being good stewards of...

I’d love to be able to write about my incredible plan to see the salmon spawning while visiting British Columbia.  I wish I could tell you about the carefully crafted trip which my whole vision was focused on.  But instead, these pictures are the lucky product of a lonely, cold, and exhausted night in BC.  After an...

When I first saw Paul Nicklen’s Instagram post with rambunctious sea lions swirling around him in beautiful, clear, green water, it was hard to believe.  Was it safe?  Did they bite?  “YES! They bite!” I thought to myself as one chomped on a diver.  They raced around in packs chasing each other and acting like giant marauding...

Low in the mountain valley, the river slowly winds its way through the pass, gradually cutting its own trail.  In this section of the river, there seemed a comical amount of cutbacks and directional changes of the water’s passage.  I have never seen anything of the sort.  So plentiful were the curves and turns, it seemed...