This week was the start of year six for the Bear Creek Explorers, and I was delighted to welcome back all six kids from last year, plus one more. For documenting, my revised intention this year is to...
It’s a new year, and we have a new Bear Creek Explorer! I’ve felt that someone was missing, despite how great this group has been. Today we welcomed Juniper, which brings our count to six...
Each year, when the rains return, mystical fungal fruitbodies cover the the Bear Creek Wilderness and turn an ordinary walk in the woods into a series of joyful exclamations of discovery. One rainy...
I’m a bit behind on these weekly blogs- tomorrow we head into the woods for week 6 and this post is about week 4. As I write this, on election day, we’ve past the mid-point of fall and on...
I started out our third week together by giving the BCE research team each their own field notebooks. They reminded me the week before that they wanted journals for sit-spot time, and although I want...
We had big plans for the Bear Creek Explorers’ second week together: explore Bear Creek! But first, we checked the rain gauge and started our field notebook entry for the day. As a group, we...
It was hard to believe last Wednesday morning that the day had finally arrived. After a year of discussing, planning, website building, marketing, buying a new van, emails, phone calls, liability...
We’ve passed the midpoint of summer and suddenly there’s a flurry of activity as we look towards fall and consider our options for the year ahead. I told myself a year ago that I’d...
It’s a busy time of year with many counting down the days until summer, and most not looking to take on anything new. But here in the heart of spring, we’re already starting to plan for...