Edge of the Hills

The local Spring Creek Project of Oregon State University invited people to write essays about the many life forms that inhabit the campus...

If I didn’t know better, and I had to bet whether a flaccid grass could outcompete a blackberry capable of flinging its spine-studded ca...

Early in my career, I worked in Prince William Sound, Alaska in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. The memory of the sight and sme...

It is Martin Luther King Day, and I just finished reading the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail,” written by Dr. King in response to the...

I never knew that fresh skunk spray smells exactly like burning rubber. Instead, as my dog leaped into the back porch after his brief pre-...