Adventure/Sports

My Second Life on the Water

08/30/2023

Guiding fundamentally changed how I view, interact with, and share our rivers and natural spaces with others.

Source to Sea, Safely

07/26/2023

In 2024, Devin A. Brown plans to become the first Black woman to kayak the entire length of the Mississippi River. She’s not doing it alone.

Fly-Fishing Opened My Eyes

07/26/2023

I learned that the better one understands the cycles of the stream, the easier it is to catch fish.

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Navigating at Home

04/26/2023

As I grow older, I find myself less driven by adrenaline, pride, or passion to change the world. I am more energized by the simple gatherings in my own community.

New Young Adult Book Explores Archeology, Gender, and Vikings

02/22/2023

This turned out to be a story that is so much more than DNA testing.

Out of the Sierra

01/25/2023

The decisions that they have to make on a daily basis about what to assimilate into, and what to resist, is something that comes out viscerally in small moments everywhere you look in that community.

Snowpocalypse: Magic and Manic

01/06/2023

Bring it on! I turn on the loudest, most radical Irish music I can find, by the inimitable Irish Rovers, and belt out “Bells over Belfast” while frantically shoveling my beast out of its latest snowy prison.

Gliding From Past to Present

10/27/2022

A Q&A with Deneane Richburg of Brownbody

Sand, Surf, and Landmines

08/25/2022

Last spring, I was aboard a student research vessel with fellow college students to conduct research projects that ranged from phytoplankton studies to plastics and biological surveys.

Values & Vision: Author Anne Winkler-Morey

08/09/2022

This represents an excerpt of a Changemakers Alliance conversation…

My 12,000-Mile Bike Trip

04/28/2022

Gusts were so strong we expended energy just to keep the bikes upright. Dust swirled, filling our lungs.

The Human Chain

03/28/2022

There was no cell service. I knew I had to move fast.

Opening the Door to Wilderness

09/22/2020

Why are the terms “explore,” “conquer,” and “discover” so prevalent when we talk about the outdoors? These terms are callbacks to colonialism and the so-called Age of Discovery.

What Neighbors Do

07/24/2020

I began to question the value of the individual to the community instead of the other way around.

Into the Wild

12/23/2019

all photos by Sarah Whiting Last summer, our Girl Scout troop…

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