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Join me in my adventures in California, Yosemite and beyond! I've spent over twenty years in environmental leadership roles--and in two of the largest national parks, Yosemite and Yellowstone.

Through my work as the California Director for the National Wildlife Federation (my dream job), I'll enjoy sharing my encounters with wildlife and my explorations of California's beautiful landscapes with you--especially my favorite place on earth: Tuolumne Meadows and the High Sierra.

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"Life is a dog and then you die. No, no, life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies. And then? I forget what happens next." Edward Abbey

"Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve." Enos Mills

"The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." Alice Walker

"I have never been in a natural place and felt that was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.” Viggo Mortensen

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Recent Blogs

Must reads! Some good books I am reading or rereading.

Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth (Speaker's Corner)

by Larry J. Schweiger
The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea

by David Helvarg
Letters to a Young Scientist

by Edward O. Wilson
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner
The Future of Life

by Edward O. Wilson
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

by Bill McKibben
Saving Homewaters: The Story of Montana's Streams and Rivers

by Gordon Sullivan
Pika: Life in the Rocks

by Tannis Bill
The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One

by Sylvia Earle
Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

by Douglas W. Smith, Gary Ferguson
Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone: A Mountaineering History & Guide

by Thomas Turiano
The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies

by Richard Hamblyn
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity

by James Hansen
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

by Jon Stewart
The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

by Susan Casey
Jane Goodall: 50 Years at Gombe

by Jane Goodall
The Wolverine Way

by Douglas Chadwick
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

by James L. Haley
Gloryland

by Shelton Johnson
Faith of Cranes: Finding Hope and Family in Alaska

by Hank Lentfer
State of Change, A: Forgotten Landscapes of California

by Laura Cunningham