I captured this image during an early morning walk in the Sacramento Riverbend area, Tehama County, California, near Red Bluff. The scene, photographed at dawn in March, shows Hog Lake with a beautiful sky and hazy mountains beyond silhouetted trees on the shoreline. In the distance, Mount Lassen and Chaos Crags in Lassen Volcanic National […]
Arbor Day was established in Nebraska in 1872, when Julius Sterling Morton proposed a tree-planting holiday to address the near-total absence of trees on the Great Plains. An estimated one million trees were planted on the first Arbor Day. The observance has since spread internationally. Nebraska remains the only state where it is a legal
Since 1970, April 22, a date generally between spring break and final exams in schools, has been designated as Earth Day. The brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and prompted in part by an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, the date is set aside for raising awareness of environmental issues
The higher elevations around Lassen County got a dusting of snow on the night of April 12-13. I’m trying to figure out a good place for my first deployment of my recently built DSLR camera trap to get some coyote photos, so I figured the fresh snow would help me identify some of their paths
About a week ago I headed out to check a trail cam I have deployed in the vicinity of McCoy Flat Reservoir in western Lassen County. My hope is to deploy a newly built DSLR Camera Trap to photograph coyotes in the area (more on the camera trap soon). Ultimately, there were no new coyote
April 10th is National Farm Animals Day — a day set aside to spotlight humane treatment of farm animals and help find homes for ones that have been abandoned or ended up in rough shape. It’s worth remembering that most of the animals we associate with farms/ranches didn’t get there by accident. Centuries of domestication
First proclaimed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938 National Wildlife Week promotes the preservation and protection of wildlife across our land. Over the years the event has been chaired by such famous people as Walt Disney, Bing Crosby, and Shirley Temple and introduced the iconic cartoon character Ranger Rick in the 1950’s. Each year, the
Since 2020, April 3rd marks World Aquatic Animal Day, courtesy of the Aquatic Animal Law Initiative and Animal Law Clinic at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland Oregon. The initiative focuses on law and policy and general awareness for the protection and preservation of fish, mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic birds and more. I think this