Tag: forest
group name: getoutdoors
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June 14, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Please join me in congratulating Barb W. for winning a copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Barb won the book in the random drawing held this afternoon.
I only . . . more
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June 11, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
But first you have to write about it.
Find yourself in the forest and tell us how you got there, what surprised you, and why you love the wilderness and you can win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: . . . more
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June 14, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Against the roughened bark he stod;
A mournful cry keenly heard, whoo--whoo-ooo would.
I twiglight, with stars a gleam;
His round eyes caught the moon beam.
His out streched wings made not . . . more
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June 26, 2008 12:34 PM EDT --
Yesterday, I went on an elk viewing trip to Hillman, Michigan. It was a beautiful day and the elk were out with their new velvet-covered antlers. I thought you'd enjoy these pictures! . . . more
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December 12, 2007 02:00 PM EST --
These are some additional photographs I took while up on the Mogollon Rim here in Arizona this year, usually just called "The Rim" to people that live here. They were taken on the same . . . more
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June 18, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
July 2007 my husband and I went camping at Vermillion Campground at Edison Lake up in the Sierra Nevada in California. The camp host recommended this hike to us. The elevation of Devil's Bathtub . . . more
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June 14, 2007 07:18 AM EDT --
-- or at least write about it by 3 p.m. EST today ---right now you stand a 1 in 14 chance of getting a free copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest, a coffee-table book from . . . more
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January 16, 2008 12:33 AM EST --
My task for the last 3 weeks has been to direct the repair of flood damage on Highway 47 in Northwest Oregon. We have been hit by snow, rain, hail, and ice. The big guys sitting in warm, dry offices are . . . more
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April 27, 2008 11:57 AM EDT --
All photos taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8.
Robert and I decided to go and find a few easy geocaches on Friday. In my terminology, an easy cache is one that sits right off the road and . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:19 AM EDT --
Take time to notice your fine-feathered friends on Saturday, May 12. It's International Migratory Bird Day. The theme for 2007 couldn't be more appropriate -- Birds in a Changing Climate. . . . more
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November 30, 2006 12:46 PM EST --
I have always held a deep respect for Americans who lived through the Great Depression. Although their generation is slowly fading into history, their ethics and determination remain a valuable symbol . . . more
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September 05, 2007 03:09 PM EDT --
On the evening of July 12th, 2007 a lightning storm passed over Ball Point Mountain in the Badger Creek Wilderness. At 6:49 p.m. a bolt of lightning struck an oak tree on the Southeast side of . . . more
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May 28, 2007 05:07 PM EDT --
Far, far away, in a old Kingdom, in the middle of the forest among the pines and the beech is a wonderful spot with all natural play for children of every age.
You can find the magical . . . more
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June 12, 2007 09:42 PM EDT --
... to win a signed copy of Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest. Tell us about your favorite forest in 300 words or less and you'll be entered in a random drawing for . . . more
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September 09, 2007 11:55 AM EDT --
I'd gone up to the Badger Creek Wilderness to see how the Ball Point Wildfire had affected the area.
On the way back to my car something flew right in front of my face. It was some sort of beetle. . . . more
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March 30, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
A forgotten forest sends up tiny tendrils to herald the start of spring
You can hear a symphony in the woods this time of year as the fiddlehead ferns . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:01 AM EDT --
An Excerpt from
Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest
Story by Lisa Gensheimer, Photographs by Ed Bernik
© 2006 Forest Press
Linda Ordiway knows the songs of the forest by . . . more
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January 26, 2008 09:29 PM EST --
In early December rain washed away several Oregon highways.
In mid-December I came back from a six week vacation in Mexico, not knowing what had happened while I was gone.
In a week after my return . . . more
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February 21, 2007 03:13 PM EST --
Some time ago I commented about a tent-trailer(?) that my friend Cosmo had bought and us using it on a recent Elk hunting trip. I didn't know what it was called for real, so I called it a pop-up thingy; . . . more
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September 08, 2007 02:38 PM EDT --
This essay is continued from Part 1 - The Fire
On my way up the mountain I was very focused on the devastation. It was easy to do with acres of burnt trees and bare ground where once . . . more
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