Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind
David B. WilliamsA free newsletter and podcast oriented toward building stronger connections to place through stories of human and natural history in the Pacific Northwest
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A Man Who Stares At Goats
Rarely does one have the opportunity, or perhaps, challenge of standing face to face with a large, hairy, stiletto-horned beast. My wife and I did this week, high atop a rocky ridge. The encounter was a bit nerve wracking as a male mountain...
Pikas: Engineers in the High Country
We saw our first pika of the season. I didn’t expect to do so. We were on a bouldery debris slope at about 4,700 feet in elevation—ideal pika habitat—but the rocks were rimmed in snow, which had fallen the previous night. And, it was neithe...
Shipwrecks of Lake Union
Many years ago, I started a book project about stories buried in Seattle. One of my favorites was the discovery during excavation for Light Rail of Yiddish newspapers, broken ceramics, and other artifacts 40 feet underground. That project e...
Of Ditches and Fantastic Fishes
Over the past two weeks I have had the pleasure of visiting some less-than-favorable habitat. The first was a sort of pond under crackling power lines, the second a straightjacketed creek in the middle of a farmer’s field. Both times I was...
My Wife: The Rattlesnake Dowser
Last weekend we ventured over the Cascade divide to the dry, east side of our fair state. We spent three nights in a sort of modified shed at Rimrock Lake, about 10 miles east of White Pass. Saturday morning, we woke to snow covering the tr...
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I am a writer, historian, and tour guide focused on the intersection between people and landscape, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
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