Salmon and Steelhead Get a Free Ride up the Seymour
Congrats and thumbs up to the Seymour Salmonid Society for their tireless work to help the Seymour River salmon and steelhead make it upstream to…
Yearly Archives: 2018
Four Days in August
When you get kids into nature, their faces remind us of what childhood was always meant to be. The smiles. The focused concentration without distraction.…
Letting Kids be Kids on the Vedder River
Last week I learned how easily we can forget the inherent value of simply getting kids into the wild, while letting go of the need…
The Seymour Salmonid Society: Working Miracles to Avert a Disaster
Before a massive rock slide in 2014 threatened to wipe out the salmon and steelhead of North Vancouver's gorgeous Seymour River, few people had ever…
The Red Rocks and Blue Waters of Princeton, BC
The historic town of Princeton, British Columbia straddles the Crowsnest Highway at the confluence of the Tulameen and Similkameen rivers east of Vancouver. Princeton was…
Rice Lake: an Urban Success Story for Kids and Fishing
In his landmark book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv wrote: “Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential…
Under the Power Lines
I’m sure there are sound journalistic principles for never cramming a folk singer, a lost dog, the city of Eugene, power lines, butterflies, trout fishing,…
Contemplating a Hairstreak Butterfly
This little Gray Hairstreak butterfly sat obligingly for a photo op in North Vancouver's Seymour Conservation Reserve the other day. I noticed it fluttering around…
Emigrant Lake – Then and Now
Above is how Emigrant Lake near Ashland, Oregon looks today. But Back in October 2015, I visited the drought-stricken lake after two years of minimal…
Finding Solace on the Seymour
Work hassles, spring fever and heavy rain brought Mr. Grumpy into the office. So I did the only sensible thing. I shut off the computer…