I spent most of my career watching people try to “save the planet” by buying expensive, pre-packaged “pollinator kits” from big-box garden centers, only to …
I spent twenty-two years watching how ecosystems fail when people treat them like something you can just “fix” with a single, expensive gesture. There is …
I was standing on a scree slope in the Cairngorms last Tuesday, nursing a thermos and checking my raptor log, when I realized the silence …
I remember standing on a peat bog in the Lake District three years ago, waist-deep in a soak that felt like it would never end, …
I remember standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms three years ago, watching a group of hikers scramble over a delicate patch of lichen-covered granite …
I spent three years as a ranger watching people stare at a patch of scrubland and call it a “success” just because a few brambles …
I remember standing on a windswept ridge in the Cairngorms back in 2012, watching a group of well-meaning volunteers try to “restore” a patch of …
I spent twenty-two years watching how ecosystems fail, usually because people focus on the massive, cinematic disasters while ignoring the slow, quiet rot right under …
I was standing on a ridge in the Cairngorms last November, soaked to the bone in a sleet that felt like needles, watching a small …
I once spent four hours crouched in a damp thicket near the edge of the Cairngorms, shivering in a jacket that had finally lost its …