I feel compelled to respond to a letter that appeared last week regarding a commercial showing aerial hunting of wolves and bears in Alaska. I wonder where this person got his information; it is my understanding that the area originally picked to kill all wolves is 5,000 square miles, and it was so hunters could kill three moose instead of one. ...more

October 6, 2008

"Mount Shasta rises in solitary grandeur from a lightly sculpted lava plain. ... Go where you will within a radius of 50 to 100 miles, and there stands the colossal cone of Shasta, clad in perpetual snow, the one grand landmark that never sets." ...more

December 9, 2007

'Over there, I see something!' someone yelled. On a lakeshore a few hundred yards away, across a thin sheet of ice, a yellowish blob lay in contrast to the new white snow. Glenn Hopfner, our driver, steered closer, and everyone reached for their binoculars and cameras. ...more

September 2, 2007