Columbia Insight’s Youth Nature Photography Class – quite a hit!
Phones are a fact of life now. But kids can use it as a tool to capture the beauty of nature. The workshop empowered budding photographers... Read more...
Aug
23, 2018
Jun
14, 2018
Scientists Committed to Finding Ways to Get Salmon Smolts Down the Columbia
By Alec Maule, June 14, 2018. Before the dams, the Snake and Columbia Rivers were cold, fast moving, and generally narrow waterbodies. Salmon smolts swam hundreds of miles on a down-river current and reached the Pacific Ocean in a few days. The completion of Bonneville Dam in 1937 began an era of harnessing the Columbia Basin rivers.Dams changed the rivers into a series of slow moving lakes. Now the smolts’ journey can take up to several weeks, leaving them vulnerable...
May
31, 2018
Camping at Owl Creek Pass
By Karen Schaefer. May 31, 2018. My dad howled like a fool at the full moon that night. They told me, too, that later that night my granddad's musty WWI army tent collapsed on me, and that I howled fit to equal my dad. An old logging road/cattle trail threads its way some 20-miles east of Ridgeway, Colorado rising to 10,114 feet at Owl Creek Pass. My parents loved a place there at the edge of the San Juan National Forest’s wilderness. They first took me camping there the summer I turned two, the howl-at-the-moon trip...
May
17, 2018
Lessons Learned from a Tiny House
Tina Gallion has spent the last year and a half living in a tiny house with her husband and two sons on their property in Underwood, Wash. During that time, she has been able to reflect on the struggles of living in a small space, as well as the joys and life lessons that such an experience provides...
May
10, 2018
Pacific Tree Frogs and the Song of Spring
By Eileen Garvin. May 10, 2018. The frogs sang through the wet green morning after Easter. They had started when it was still hard dark, bleating intermittently across the yard as if cajoling the sun not to rise. Sometime after dawn or the hour that should have been dawn...
Mar
14, 2018
Drink responsibly, brew sustainably
By Will Smith. March 15, 2018. In 1987, the United Nations sponsored Brundtland Report defined sustainable development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Coincidentally, 1987 was also the year that the first modern Gorge microbrewery, Full Sail, was established...
