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(I'm back-posting photos from Midwest road trips, partly inspired by an essay on the Midwest I found through Marginal Revolution. Here...

(I'm back-posting photos from Midwest road trips, partly inspired by an essay on the Midwest I found through Marginal Revolution. Here...

I can't believe I only now found out about this amazing resource, this twenty-two (22!)volume work. Check it out at George's website...

Just pointing to American Geode and their fossil hunting expedition along PA Route 15 , which yielded some Devonian plant specimens and an e...

Specifically, on the Peninsula between Davenport and Pescadero. The one I'm reproducing here doesn't even do justice to the rest of...

...and he's going to keep going until he reaches the Arctic in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. What is WRONG with these people. (More coverage of...

Above: the rainy season is here, on the American River in Carmichael. Below: Darrington Trail along the South Fork of the American the v...

H/T Reddit user CaptainBrant, first seen here . This is the result of the PA forest survey. THIS is how you manage forest lands! The 2.4:...

Dead chestnuts, New York, 1915, image credit National Geographic I had only heard glancing references to this in the past but there...

Among other observations: "Choosing individuals to share meals with was not random or reserved for family members. The pumas seemed to...

[I wrote this a week and a half before the Napa-Sonoma wildfires. That's not national forest, but I don't know why we think the sam...

I whined before about how outdoorsy types can turn being outdoorsy into a status game, but this is even worse: "Right now, it has bee...

[Added at the end of the season: this ended up being very fun, but not an effective way to test whether sheer team loyalty and knowledge ve...

Yesterday, in my quest to circumnavigate the lake on the Tahoe Rim Trail, I did a piece of it from Echo Lake, past Lake Aloha to not-quite-G...