Reading the Washington Landscape

  Galanthus Snowdrops Our cold weather has ended in northwest Washington. It reached 50 F today with misty rain. Given that I had a water v...

The Highway 9 corridor from Sedro-Wooley to Kendal follows the Samish River Valley and then after crossing a very subtle divide follows the ...

  Highway 397 is a spur highway off of Interstate 84 south of Kennewick that accesses the Finley area to the east of Kennewick. The route by...

While doing field work I come across what I have decided is a personal enemy on regular basis. Eglish Holly ( Ilex aquifolium ) I was able t...

I plotted out a route to a steep slope at the headwaters of a creek in the Northwest Cascades. While approaching the site I noted windfall t...

 A road cut along the southeast side of Palmer Lake consists primarily of angular rocks, but a thick white layer is located below the upperm...

On my way to another venture I observed this road cut west of Benton City in the lower, eastern Yakima valley. The location is mapped as an ...