Reading the Washington Landscape

I was going through some pictures of the Snake River canyon through the southeastern Washington Palouse. The four dams on the lower Snake ...

Guemes Mountain is on Geumes Island. Guemes is one of the San Juan Islands, but is in Skagit County. It is a very short ferry ride across ...

I visited the west side of the Elwha River delta. The road dead ends at a trail head at a dike with a wide gravel path along the top of th...

In the slightly wetter dry land farming zones of central and eastern Washington, canola fields have become part of the crop rotation. ...

Considering my field time and the areas of much of my field work I do not see bears very often despite often seeing signs of the presence....

Geology is a critical component of agriculture. The recessional glacial outwash plains around Lynden in northwest Washington formed some o...

It is a bit unusual to see a single rock being transported on the highway. Large rock on I-5 north bound through the Chuckanuts La...