When we arrived this week, the rain gauge was frozen solid. The pond was ice-free but crystal clear. We saw three newts swimming in the muck below. The mosture from the wet medow makes beautiful ice...

We had a very mild fall, but this week, our first BCE of winter and the first week back after break, Mother Nature finally gave us an authentic Oregon winter experience. But before I dive into this...

On our first field trip of the year, and our second annual visit to that beautiful piece of land just west of Bear Creek known as Balderdash, we were greeted warmly with giant doggie hugs. Okay, in...

Header photo credit Annabella Waterbury. It’s been a while since we had a rough-skinned newt encounter, but we spotted a little one this week on the way to Plot #3. We were down two explorers...

The rain gauge had a beautiful web bejeweled with water droplets this week, and a layer of ice for the first time this season. During our morning data collection routine, we added a protocol for...

Congratulations to Terran- the first Bear Creek Explorer to write a grant for his forest science project and get it approved! We submitted the grant a few weeks back, heard back quickly from the Diack...

During our fire feast last week, we also fired our earthenware pottery. This is clay we harvested and processed last fall, then sculpted with in the spring. It sat to dry for many months in the lodge...

We experienced an atmospheric river last weekend, and for the first time this year, the rain gauge overflowed the inner cylinder. I guessed this might be the case (I have the same rain gauge in my...

We had a lot to talk about this week, but one new science concept was soil respiration. I have a gas monitor that can measure the amount of carbon dioxide coming out of a patch of earth. Why is this...