Flooded spillway makes ‘rooster tail’

Jan. 9 — The Sacramento Bee posted a simple phone video I made of water draining from Lake Wildwood into Deer Continue reading →

Worries for a rare duck

  Jan. 3, 2017 — My story is published today in The Sacramento Bee about a rare Common Pochard that wandered Continue reading →

Father’s Day, Oriole Style

June 5, 2016 — Today my backyard Hooded Oriole family introduced their newest kids (second brood) to the sugar feeders. Continue reading →

Massacre: 250 Shoshone were killed in 1863 by the U.S. Army

May 13, 2016 — Now at Smithsonian.com: My story about the killings of more than 250 Shoshone men, women and Continue reading →

The Super Bowl gets a little greener

  Feb. 2, 2016  —  I enjoyed returning to my alt-fuel roots this week, when I wrote about a Finnish Continue reading →

What UC Davis says Calif. must do about drought

    Dec. 3, 2015 • A package of four op-eds I did has been published online. The op-eds describe Continue reading →

Tricolored Blackbird Research

August 2015 — In the springs of 2014 and 2015, I spent a few days with Tricolored  Blackbird expert Dr. Continue reading →