Field Note · PH01
Fire Across the Tallgrass
The smoke is only the beginning of the story. How fire renews and shapes the tallgrass prairie.
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Follow the landscape.
Stories about plants, wildlife, fire, weather and the places behind each Juniper Farms blend.
Series · PH
Prairie Haze Field Notes
Field Note · PH02
Keeping the Sky Open
A prairie does not have to be plowed under to disappear. Fire, eastern redcedar and the fight to keep grassland open.
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The Patchwork Prairie
A firsthand morning with Greater Prairie-Chickens, and the fire-and-grazing mosaic that keeps their prairie varied.
Read Field Note →Series · RM
Ruby Mountain Field Notes
Field Note · RM01
Where the Desert Hangs Green
Springs, seeps and hanging gardens — small green worlds appearing from the walls of dry canyon country.
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An Island Above the Desert
The Ruby Mountains rise out of the Great Basin into a wetter, colder world of water, wildflowers and alpine country.
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When the Desert Decides to Bloom
Years of stored possibility can appear at once when desert rain, warmth and timing finally line up.
Read Field Note →Series · BO
Black Orchard Field Notes
Field Note · BO01
Where the Forest Opens
Why the small breaks in a forest can become places of light, fruit and unexpected abundance.
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A Berry Wants to Be Eaten
Fruit, wildlife and the quiet bargain that lets a plant move without ever taking a step.
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The Trees That Stayed
A forgotten Madeline Island orchard, three surviving apple trees and a landscape that remembers.
Read Field Note →Series · GM
Glacier Mint Field Notes
Field Note · GM01
When the Ice Stops Moving
What makes a glacier a glacier — and what happens when a shrinking body of mountain ice can no longer move under its own weight.
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Built to Last
Great Basin bristlecone pines, high-elevation hardship and the strange forms taken by trees that can live for thousands of years.
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The Animal That Can’t Take the Heat
The American pika, its winter haypiles and the cool spaces hidden beneath a mountain of broken rock.
Read Field Note →Series · GF
Green Fire Field Notes
Field Note · GF01
The First Warm Rain
Spring rarely arrives all at once. It moves through the forest in pieces.
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Cassina
An evergreen holly carries a brewing tradition rooted deeply in North America.
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The Whole Landscape
The longer you look, the harder it becomes to find where one story ends and another begins.
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Wildland Roast Field Notes
Field Note · WR01
Water in Dry Country
In dry country, some of the deepest marks belong to water.
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The Ground Keeps Living
What looks finished from a distance is often still becoming.
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What the Woodland Gives
A sparse woodland can provide more than it first appears to.
Read Field Note →Series · MRV
Missouri River Grey Field Notes
Field Note · MRV01
More Than a Line on a Map
A river can divide a modern map while connecting nearly everything around it.
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Wild Bergamot
One of North America’s most aromatic plants carries a familiar name and a character entirely its own.
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A River Made of Rivers
The Missouri begins by coming together—and reaches another confluence after gathering a continent of country.
Read Field Note →Series · MS
Midnight Sun Field Notes
Field Note · MS01
When Night Doesn't Arrive
At one remote summit, midnight daylight appears before the map even reaches the Arctic Circle.
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Everything Uses the Light
A short northern summer turns long daylight into a rush of growth, migration and nesting.
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What Time Is It?
When darkness stops ending the day, the clock and the landscape begin telling different stories.
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Woodland Cassina Field Notes
Field Note · WC01
The Tree That Holds the Shade
Some trees do more than grow in a forest. They change what the forest feels like beneath them.
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The Forest Between
The most interesting part of a forest may be the space between the soil and the first branches.
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Sweet Fern
Some plants are remarkably good at making a living where the ground offers very little.
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