"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." –Rachel Carson

Ginny Hill Wood, Camp Denali Matriarch

Posted on 04/28/2020 |
In 1952 Virginia “Ginny” Hill, her husband ‘Woody’ Morton Wood, and Celia Hunter founded Camp Denali, one of Alaska’s first eco-tourism lodges, located 90 miles out the Denali Park Road, near Wonder Lake in then Mt. McKinley National Park. Ginny spent every summer at Denali National Park, building camp where they hauled in everything, led […]

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Weeding Yellowstone: Knapweed And Hermit Thrushes

Posted on Posted on 06/06/2019 |
This June day, I spent the morning squatting in a clearing just off Upper Terrace Road at Mammoth Hot Springs in the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park, hand-digging Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens). A hermit thrush serenaded me as I worked, its fluting song echoing through the nearby grove of Douglas-fir trees: first a long clear […]

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