by Nick Lyons | Aug 17, 2025 | Essay
Essay I Am the River by Nick Lyons Photo by Jon Sailer I Am the River I read the river, forty years ago, like I would read a great poem. I wanted to fasten all the words of the river to my brain. I wanted them there for as long as I was conscious—every bend,...
by Todd Davis | Apr 25, 2024 | Essay
Essay Morning Swim by Todd Davis Illustration by Annabelle Bullock Morning Swim She comes to the water, as mountain deer do, never fully trusting each step. An older doe. No fawns with her. Perhaps she’s laid them down, licked as much scent from them as she can, and...
by Daniel Tankersley | Oct 16, 2023 | Essay
Essay I Know This Frog by Daniel Tankersley Photo by Daniel Tankersley I Know This Frog Hey, I know this frog! A Pacific tree frog. We met decades ago when I was a child at a campsite on the other side of this mountain view lake in the Central Oregon Cascades. It’s a...
by Dan Shilling | May 16, 2023 | Essay
Essay Aldo Leopold and the Land’s Original Rhythms by Dan Shilling Photo by Becky Duhr, courtesy of the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Aldo Leopold and the Land’s Original Rhythms In 1904, after the prominent physician and Native elder Charles Eastman had visited his...