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Natural History
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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness (Henry David Thoreau)

red-tailed hawk, black bear, silver-haired bat, 
spiny-spored quillwort, boreal toad, funghi, porcupines, goldenrod, rainbow trout, rough-skinned newt,
angel wing, bleeding heart, bumblebee, 
great horned owl, painted lady, shasta fir cones, nineleaf biscuitroot, ducks, bats, geese, swifts, 
doves, owls, hawks 

My father always told me that Giwas, which means spiritual place, Giwas is Crater Lake. I go up there to gather healing and prayer. —Taylor Tupper, member of the Steiger Butte Drum and Singers