• Rare Birds: The Endangered Puffins of the Salish Sea

    The air buzzes with excitement as each smiling guest, aged five to 99, boards the vessel, united by a shared mission to encounter one of the…

  • A Larch Pilgrimage to Upper Eagle Lake

    The rain falls for two days and nights, drifting through the trees, chilled by the breath of oncoming winter. Here at the Klipchuck Campgrou…

  • Imua: Go Forward

    We hear the words “paddles ready…paddles set…and hit” from our steersperson, and the outrigger canoe starts its glide through the water, gai…

  • Autumn in the Kootenays

    The mountains of British Columbia are justifiably world famous for their rugged beauty and isolation, stretching in range after glorious ran…

  • A Reflection on Hope in the 21st Century

                Last October, while in Bellingham for the launch of my book Teaching in the Rain I was asked several times whether I was hopeful…