There is a community of the spirit
Join it and feel the delight
Of walking in the noisy street
And being the noise.
- Rumi

The Oregon rest stop bathrooms, long festooned with indicators of the public mind, have begun to center around a theme.

Burning the wild strawberry patch. Great day for fire in the valley foothills!

Cloud forest oaks of Costa Rica.

You can’t see Bob Dylan or Dave Van Ronk at the Gaslight, you can’t head over to the Keystone to see Jerry Garcia, but you can still catch Michael Hurley at the Laurelthirst Pub on a Saturday night.

It is the season of giddy video messages from clients when their ponds fill up.

Revisiting Donella Meadows book “Thinking in Systems”. Her insights on “system traps” are worth checking out. Some may find it useful we regroup and consider our activism moving forward.

Our kids helped us to mark trees for a restoration forestry project this year. Some of the co-benefits of their involvement: they like to spray paint things, they are nimble and fit well under low hanging limbs, and the whole project gets turned into an awesome Lego diorama!

We’ve been working on a project in the Blue mountains of Eastern Oregon. In the main stream canyon a sheep and goat herd is used to clear blackberry and other rambunctious plants. A few years of vegetation management will be followed by beaver dam analogues and riparian plantings.

Fixed it