Adventure/Sports

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Navigating at Home

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.

  • 04/26/2023
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New Young Adult Book Explores Archeology, Gender, and Vikings

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

  • 02/22/2023
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Out of the Sierra

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.

  • 01/25/2023
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Snowpocalypse: Magic and Manic

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. 

  • 01/06/2023
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Gliding From Past to Present

A Q&A with Deneane Richburg of Brownbody

  • 10/27/2022
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Sand, Surf, and Landmines

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.

  • 08/25/2022
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Values & Vision: Author Anne Winkler-Morey

This represents an excerpt of a Changemakers Alliance conversation we hosted with Anne Winkler-Morey, author of “Allegiance to Winds and

  • 08/09/2022
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My 12,000-Mile Bike Trip

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

  • 04/28/2022
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The Human Chain

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

  • 03/28/2022
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Opening the Door to Wilderness

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.

  • 09/22/2020
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What Neighbors Do

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

  • 07/24/2020
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Into the Wild

Last summer, our Girl Scout troop went on a three-day trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. None of

  • 12/23/2019