Oceanic volcanic islands develop above mantle hotspots or along mid oceanic ridges where the sea floor is spreading. The Hawaiian Ridge i...
Oceanic volcanic islands develop above mantle hotspots or along mid oceanic ridges where the sea floor is spreading. The Hawaiian Ridge i...
Boreal owls are small raptors that inhabit mixed conifer-aspen forests across Alaska, Canada and northern Eurasia; their range also extends ...
The rugged, volcanic Cascade Range stretches from southern British Columbia to northern California; it is bisected by the Columbia River, wh...
The landslide tragedy in Oso, Washington, occurred in a region of North America that is especially prone to such events. Landslides general...
Second only to the Yukon among Alaska's Rivers, the Kuskokwim (which means slow-flowing) drains the remote southwest region of the State...
Yellowstone National Park covers a massive volcanic plateau in northwestern Wyoming; slivers of the Park also extend into southern Montana a...
As the Mesozoic Era dawned, 225 million years ago, only northern and northeastern Alaska were part of North America. Since that time, numer...
Greater sage grouse, the largest grouse in North America, inhabit sage grasslands of the Intermountain West, from Colorado to the Columbia P...
While crossing the stormy Plains yesterday afternoon, I encountered a small flock of long-billed curlews, attempting to fly into the teeth o...
Near the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago, a lobe of the Cordilleran Glacier that covered the Rocky Mountains blocked ...
Harney Basin is a geologic and topographic basin in southeast Oregon; while it sits adjacent to the northwest corner of the Great Basin, it ...
Gyrfalcons are the largest and most powerful falcons on our planet, inhabiting Arctic and Subarctic regions of the globe. Those that live n...
Along the Pacific Coast, from southern British Columbia to northern California, three small tectonic plates lie between the Pacific and Nort...
During the Eocene Period, some 50 million years ago, sediments collected across what is now western Washington. The majority of these depos...
Produced by an atmospheric trough over the eastern Pacific, the Pineapple Express is a plume of deep, tropical moisture that is swept into t...
On our last day in Vancouver, an article in the Globe and Mail explored the controversy surrounding salmon farming in British Columbia. Ini...
During our visit to Vancouver Island, we took a boat tour of the Broken Islands National Park, south of Ucluelet. Though marketed as a wildl...
Despite the spectacular scenery, fair weather, varied habitats and interesting mammals, my birding experience on Vancouver Island was somewh...
Like the many other exotic terrains that, collectively, make up the western portion of North America, Vancouver Island drifted in on oceanic...
The Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest began to form during the Oligocene, 36 million years ago, as the Farallon Plate subducted beneath...