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Essays on rivers, ridgelines, and the species that live in them. Where to find them, how they behave, and why they're worth carrying with you.

May 27, 2026

Parliament, Shiver, Rhumba: A Field Guide to Collective Nouns

The names we give groups of animals — parliament of owls, shiver of sharks, rhumba of rattlesnakes — most of them inherited from a 15th-century English hunting manual, some of them quietly invented yesterday.
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May 20, 2026

Best Brown Trout Rivers in the U.S.

Where to find big, wary, native-feeling brown trout — six rivers across four states that consistently produce the kind of fish people don't post about.
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May 13, 2026

Joey, Eaglet, Pangopup: A Field Guide to Baby Animal Names

What we call the young of wild things — joeys, eaglets, owlets, paralarvae, leptocephali, pangopups. Some of these names are ancient, some are zoological, and some were invented yesterday.
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