As the area of our knowledge grows, so does the perimeter of our ignorance. Neil deGrasse Tyson When my wife, Cheryl and I were in Lamington National Park, QLD, Australia, we learned about Red Bull Ants. They have nothing to do with the soft drink but do have unusual powers. “They are characterized by their… (read more)

100 years ago, my grandfather sold boxes of apples door to door in St. Louis. He picked them up at the train station. They were labeled “Kettle Falls”. Lenore Bible and her brother worked after school nailing apple boxes together in Kettle Falls to make money for their family after their father died in an… (read more)

I have been writing about regenerative agriculture in the North Columbia Monthly for 5 years and for the last 3 years have been writing about the establishment of Hudson’s Bay Fort Colvile (sic) 200 years ago in the Silverado. This summer those two passions converged as I attempted to understand a Salish language word by… (read more)

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I am writing this a couple days before the Winter Solstice. By the time you read it Christmas will be over and New Years too.  Hopefully we have survived both events.  I had a prioritized list for Christmas: write newsletter; get cards; print labels; buy stamps; send cards and newsletters; figure out gifts; get tree. … (read more)

It takes awhile to learn the slow story of geology covering eras, eons and epochs.  The world’s seven tectonic plates spread over time from volcanic seams in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.  Within those plates are stratigraphic terranes, large masses of rock with related histories.  The names and times of geologic events become more twisted… (read more)