When my family asked what I wanted to do for my birthday on the 10th, I knew. I wanted to do the Gibraltar Rock segment with them before going out to dinner nearby. So I skipped north knowing that this…
I switched to using 'Edition' rather than 'Week' for the supplements to this story because my series of hikes was not linear in days and directions. I didn't consistently go from one segment to the next in a north-south or…
The Table Bluff segments were kind of my warm up: close to home, familiar. Since I didn’t have a hiking partner to shuttle a car, I did it in two sections back and forth: Swamp Lovers and Hoverstrom Preserve on…
This October the Ice Age Trail, a National Scenic Trail that follows the leading edge of glaciers from some 12,000 years ago through Wisconsin, celebrated 40 years with a 40 mile Mammoth hike challenge. Hike any combination of segments on…
I bring extensive international and public lands experience to my practice. I spent 25 years in academics as faculty of landscape architecture, GIS and conservation at two universities, where I led projects in Asia, Europe, the Pacific Northwest, and the Great Lakes regions. Prior to being a professor, I worked as a landscape ecologist and landscape architect with the US Forest Service.