WRITING
I write about the outdoors—the wildlife, the people, and the places that shape them. As you'll notice below, I cut my teeth writing about all things elk, but my curiosity runs wider. I'm drawn to conservation controversies, character-driven profiles, and the wild places worth fighting for. Whether it's a data-heavy policy piece, a feature on collaborative conservation efforts, or hard news about wildlife management, I'm after stories that matter to people who care deeply about the land.
Dave and Judy Yoder have a love story for the ages, but Judy can't say the same about her feelings for "Dave's elk mung."
a human profile
a landscape Profile
The story of a teenage boy who found one of the few known relics of an ancient elk subspecies is woven into this ode to Arizona's legendary White Mountains
I'd call this one a "cold, hard news story" but really its an inspiring update on the East's growing elk herds told using traditional journalistic prose.
News Pieces
In this data-heavy piece, I dove into "What a beautiful thing it is that every bugling bull marching along a ridge with ivory-tipped tines trailing along his back, every plump cutthroat trout rising to sip a fly off the water, every flushing grouse, strutting turkey and pronghorn zipping across the prairie are owned by us all," and how hunters help foot the bill to maintain this standard and manage the resource.
The "Elk Mountain" land project marked a unique opportunity where I was able to do some field reporting and photography. The end result was this feature article for Bugle magazine.
When mountain lion hunting was on the chopping block in Colorado, I penned a few words about what potential ramifications--both ecological and social--could result from diverging from science-based wildlife management.
