Category: Fish Owls

• 2017 End of Year Summary

  Another good year! In total, I worked on 19 stories (down from 22 in 2016). The most important writing development of 2017, without question, was finding a home for my…

• Walking Rivers with Tigers

  My most recent post at Scientific American: Why do tigers always seem to turn up when I’m looking for owls? My Russian colleagues and I spent about a month surveying…

• Where There Is No Tractor

  This post first appeared on 16 March, 2016 on Scientific American. One of my favorite Russian sayings, roughly translated, is that the better your off-road vehicle, the further you’ll have…