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04/14/2026

Beams of light break through the dramatic clouds over the Eastern Sierra and illuminate the Mojave that sits below

Shot on Paiute Shoshone land

01/25/2026

Several conservation non-profits including and have heroically filed intent to sue federal agencies which approved a massive development in a crucial area of Southwest Florida. The proposed site of the Rural Lands West project intends to destroy over 10,000 acres of nature to create a new town with thousands of homes.

Should the project go through, the crucial corridor that connects Fakahatchee Strand, Big Cypress and the Florida Panther NWR in the south to the Corkscrew Swamp and surrounding watershed in the north would disappear. This would be a very devastating development in an area that has already faced extreme habitat destruction over the past century. This site specifically is in the primary zone of Florida panther habitat (2 of which have already died from car strikes in 2026) and that of other listed and culturally-important wildlife. Should the project go through, it could be a tipping point toward the extinction of the Florida panther.

Image 1: Alligators at Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed

Image 2: Bald cypresses in Big Cypress National Preserve

Image 3: A flock of roseate spoonbills within the area of proposed development off Oil Well Road, west of Ave Maria

Image 4: Fakahatchee Strand

Image 5: A Florida softshell turtle along the Fakahatchee Strand

Image 6: a down log over water in the Fakahatchee Strand

Image 7: A wood stork walking through a roadside canal at sunrise in the area of proposed development, west of Ave Maria

Image 8: A red-shouldered hawk watching from a tree in the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary

Image 9: A pileated woodpecker flying in Florida Panther NWR

Images taken on Miccosukee, Seminole, Mascogo, Taíno, and Calusa lands

12/18/2025

A record-breaking 2,100 Chinook salmon returned to spawn in restored Putah Creek this fall. UC Davis fish biologists and partners are tracking and monitoring the run.

12/13/2025

I’ve spent the past month and a half running a live fish counting weir on Putah Creek. Over a 47 day period we processed over 2100 Chinook salmon through our live fish counting weir and they’re still trickling in.

Since intensive monitoring efforts began in 2021, the highest adult return we had was in 2023 when we collected 446 carcasses and estimated 735 salmon returning to spawn. It’s wild to have possibly tripled that number and see thousands enter the system to spawn given that from the 1950s to the mid 2000s, Putah lacked a true salmon run. The restoration of functional flows beginning in 2000 certainly seems to have benefitted Chinook salmon in Putah.

The high number is reflective of high returns throughout Northern California this year. While there have been good water years providing sufficient flow and quality habitat, conditions will be increasingly variable and extreme as climate change worsens. Further, costly and unsustainable management actions have affected high returns, with large hatchery outputs of young and the closure of California’s commercial salmon fishery for three consecutive years. Though this year and Putah look promising there is lots of work to do to recover Central Valley Chinook salmon.

I’m excited to continue working on Putah Creek as I pursue my master’s degree at UC Davis beginning next fall!

Photos taken on Miwok and Patwin land. h

10/06/2025

Life update - I got married last week to my favorite person in the world! I’m so grateful to have had such a wonderful week full of great food and overflowing with love among our best friends and family, capped off by a perfect wedding. I can’t express how thankful I am for my parents and sibling for all their support, my new in-laws for all their help and hospitality, my groomsmen for joining me for a great time not just in New Orleans but on an exceptionally fun bachelor trip in the Eastern Sierras last June, and of course my wife for being more than I could ever ask for. And a special thanks to for these many of these photos and all her help on the best day of our lives!

08/31/2025

Wading birds of Bodega Bay. Snowy egrets exhibit a wider variety of foraging methods than any other heron or egret - this one is probing around the mud with its feet at low tide to feel for invertebrates. The great blue heron stands tall and still, patiently waiting for prey to come within striking distance before attacking.

Shot on Coast Miwok land.

08/25/2025

When the trail got the little wooden bridge over the babbling brook >>>

Shot on Eastern Mono and Northern Paiute land

07/28/2025

Panorama of the Sierras over Long Lake in Little Lakes Valley

Shot on Northern Paiute and Eastern Mono land

07/06/2025

As the suffocating fog burned off Haleakalā in the half hour following sunrise, the otherworldly alpine landscape progressively came into view, followed by the rest of Maui and the Pacific 10,000 feet below.

Shot on Kānaka Maoli land.

06/25/2025

Recently processed some shots I took in Glacier a few years ago

Shot on Kootenay land

06/08/2025

Tide pool tiempo on the Olympic Coast

Tomorrow, 6/8, is World Oceans Day. Even the sliver of sea that cyclically submerges the intertidal zone, a drop in the 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of ocean beyond, is full of wonder and whimsy. Take a moment to ground yourself, think of all that the miraculous ocean does, and remember what matters most in this world.

Photographed on Quileute and Chalat’ land

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