Interview between Christine Elder and Isabelle Rizo I was interviewed on July 23, 2016 by my friend and colleague, Isabelle Rizo about my journey in combining my work as a naturalist, environmental educator, and artist with teaching folks to connect with nature...
Porcupine Love; a Spiny Affair Reproduction for porcupines – the subject of many speculative jokes- is a chancy affair. The female is fertile only once a year in the autumn and then only for a window of several hours. The male, being a solitary creature, must...
A Mystery Solved on Sanibel Island When I’m out in nature, it’s as if I’m still a wide-eyed child, noticing everything around me and watching for new and interesting stuff to discover. We were recently on Sanibel Island in Florida and I found the...
A howler monkey hoots in the distance; his voice, one of the loudest in the animal kingdom, echoing throughout the mangrove swamp, a flock of white-crowned parrots flies overhead, speeding across the river canyon, cicadas buzzing their incessant zeee, zeee, zeee in...
I shot this video at sunset while exploring a lake in central Oregon in the early spring. We were gleefully surprised by a wonderful natural phenomenon I have never witnessed before. Check it out on this short 2-minute...
