Reading the Washington Landscape

I recently had some ventures in the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin looms large in geology lore and American/global policy. The basin exten...

A few of my Irish music favorites: On Raglan Road - A poem by Patrick Kavavagh that he apparently felt should be sung to the music of 'D...

  DEM showing ice age flood lake that formed above Wallula Gap and above the Columbia River Gorge I got a chance to get up on the edge of Wa...

I have observed that large swaths of Shaw Island and Lopez Island are covered with stands of lodge pole pine. The lodge pole appear to do we...

Over the past several months I have encountered Israel Russell on several occasions. Russell did some of the earliest work on trying to figu...

While doing some field work on a very wet day near the outer west coast I noted what appeared to be another tree spear (tree-top-spear) . I ...

I enjoy our periodic short burst of true winter weather. The cold periods in western Washington are short. I will say that while the areas s...