Selected Writings
What to do with Nomans Land? – Hakai Magazine (picked up by the Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, and others)
Winter is for the Ducks – New Hampshire Audubon’s Joy of Birding
Waiting for Wolves – Real Life
Feeding the Birds – Center for Humans and Nature
Deciding the Future of Massachusetts’ Striped Bass – Hakai Magazine
America’s Oldest Boat Shop – Atlas Obscura
Island of the Ospreys – Center for Humans and Nature
The Sanctity of American Landscapes – Los Angeles Review of Books
Bold Coast Burns: Art Inspired by Life Underwater (print only) – On The Water Magazine
Consider the Coywolf – Center for Humans and Nature
Gratitude Journals – Men’s Health
How to Draw Your Own Selfie—Using Personal Data – TED Ideas
Rock & Hawk
The experience of living with traumatic brain injury, a chronic condition, and how courts have approached the impossible task of assigning a dollar value to loss of enjoyment of life.
A great pond, a black clouser, my grandfather's rowboat—now mine. Rowing that boat across a salt pond, fly fishing for stripers. The November he passed away after eight decades of living life on his own stubborn terms.
Wet Boots & The Right To Exclude
4:00 A.M. birding excursions for Black Skimmers (Rynchops niger), an interrogation of the Colonial Ordinances of 1641–47, whether birding counts as “fowling” under Massachusetts intertidal law, and why crawling across a private beach for a better look at a Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) might be legal in New Jersey but not in Massachusetts.
The Long Half-Life pt. I: The Good Chemical, and The Long Half-Life pt. II: Peregrine Falcon
DDT's fall from wartime savior to eggshell-thinning, raptor-extirpating poison, and the point at which negligence became recklessness
1,094 words on geese, 4,131 in footnotes. Nine interruptions from Dostoevsky.