I overheard a conversation in the Juneau, Alaska airport while on a layover. It went like this, “It’s going to be 116 in Portland today. I think Seattle will be just as high and in Idaho too. Sometimes I think, maybe it’s too late to fix these problems.” I wanted to turn around and say to her, “But aren’t we going to at least try?!!!” But I decided against it. We all know what’s happening. We feel it in our own communities. There’s no denying it. Climate change is here. It’s

It almost seemed like I was traveling backwards in time this spring. As the season began I was in South Florida and then made my way up the Eastern Seaboard as the leaves moved from fully formed in the south to the pale green colors of leaves just sprouting on the trees as I reached the coast of Maine, back into cold weather. It was so cold on Memorial Day weekend that the water froze in my RV the morning I left Grand Marais, Minnesota for Isle Royale. I can feel myself chang