I'm guiding a paddle on the St. Croix River on Saturday when I'll share some of my favorite river writers. It'll be fun and the weather is looking great. Still a few spots open! go.theflybook.com/book/1554/En...

Dragonfly hunting on the upper St. Croix yesterday. Also a purple wartyback mussel.

The wood thrush starts singing and all the other birds go quiet.

We canoed among fireflies last night. Came across one on the water's surface. Somehow got it on my paddle. Placed it on the thwart, carried him along until he disappeared into the darkness.

This is how I crammed the entire Old Testament in about three days during my freshman year of college in 1999.

Announcing the ‘Layers of River History’ guided paddled series Join Greg Seitz on a relaxing and revealing trip down the St. Croix River.

Recently watched a ruby-throated hummingbird conduct his morning ablutions at an artisanal spring in northwest Wisconsin.

Roughly 30 million birds crossed Wisconsin last night during migration, and at around 3:40 am, there were nearly 50 million birds in the air. Bird migration time is peaking around this time of year, so keep the lights off overnight to help them fly safely. dashboard.birdcast.org/region/US-WI

Didn't fish today, chased feathers instead of fins, opted for friends in the forest over water and boats. No catching, no releasing, just awe. No regrets.

TODAY is officially Native Fish Day in Minnesota!!! Governor Walz has signed the proclamation recognizing the value of native fishes, particularly those under-appreciated, so-called rough fish. I think Sir David Attenborough (turning 100 years old today) would approve!

You can now watch a recording of my recent presentation about #deepmapping and the book I'm working on.

The border between Minnesota and Wisconsin is about 300 miles long. The St. Croix and Mississippi Rivers comprise about 260 miles of that. Roads run along a mere 11 miles of the border. This is one such stretch: Wisconsin on the left and Minnesota on the right.

Paddled Horse Creek in western Wisconsin yesterday. Flows down the valley carved by glacial meltwater. Shot culverts, limboed under bridges and electric fences, saw wildlife beyond measure. Creek meanders across the valley, we went 12 miles to cover 5.5 miles as the crow flies. Excellent adventure.

The photo selection is a pretty accurate representation of OPH

Went to watch the woodcocks celebrate spring.

Eastern phoebes returned to the yard today. They almost always arrive on April 10, like they have a little bird calendar.

I'm giving an online presentation next Tuesday about my writing and mapping work, as well as last summer's artist residency at Pine Needles. Please tune in! stcroixsplash.org/event/deep-m...

So Minneapolis is paying a French tire company to come here and tell us if any restaurants are good?

NPR airing a segment that is just listing all the movies with the word "Moon" in the title and I guess I'm glad for a slow news day

The 25th of April is a Saturday and seems like a good day for protests calling for the 25th amendment

Water and woods to remind us that the world will always be bigger than people.

My ancestors had no real right to come to America but they did, and now I'm supposed to believe the government has any ethical power to say who can be a "citizen," based on birthplace? To be a citizen is to reject such ideas.

My maps are part of an excellent exhibit opening this week in Stillwater. Please join us at the opening reception on Thursday from 6-8!

Bears are awake!

For the Twins as they start the season against the Orioles

Along with everyone else in the St. Croix Valley, I went for a walk in the woods this very warm afternoon. Saw frozen spring seeps and the first scarlet cup mushrooms.

A neighbor shared this video of a beaver seemingly chasing off a romp of river otters. I'm curious about the interspecies relationship. They don't compete for food but often occupy similar habitat. Wondering if otters prey on beaver kits?

The first few years we lived in this house were the last few years Pete Hegseth was drinking, cheating, and abusing in a house about a half-mile through the woods. He somehow found a way to go downhill from there.

Currently working on a long nonfiction book, loving this news!

March 3, 2020: CDC reports 60 cases of COVID-19 in the United States March 3, 2026: I test positive for COVID-19 for the first time

Osceola aglow.

CITY LERK.

Deep down in the ravine, the sun still managed to find us.

We just had a wonderful little love-filled Valentine's Day rally and community sing for peace and human rights in Marine on Saint Croix. Sunshine and kids and connection.

If you come to Minneapolis I’ll give you a personal tour of one of the most beautiful libraries in the country, Walter Library at the University of Minnesota.

Diane Wilson—Dakota writer, educator, and bog steward, and my friend—connected the dots between immigration, Indigenous people, the Whipple building, and attacks on the Boundary Waters and the Earth as a whole, in a brief but wise essay for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy. lithub.com/letter-from-...

Seventy-five or more folks froze their faces in a bitter wind to stand up for America in Stillwater today. Seemed like half the passing cars were honking in support.

"There is nobody more American than American Indians! We are America, how can you possibly target Native Americans? It's legally impossible!" -Chase Iron Eyes tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social about four Oglala Sioux Tribal members being taken by ICE... Three are now missing . LIVE NOW ⬇️

The St. Croix Tribe of Ojibwe in northwestern Wisconsin are offering tribal members living in the Twin Cities 14 days of free hotel lodging on the reservation and other support as part of a temporary "Return Home" program.

The only photo I took during my shift washing dishes at tonight's lutefisk dinner at Christ Lutheran Church in Marine on St. Croix: the cache of roasters and pans stashed in a pre-school classroom.

"Of the one hundred strong and stout-hearted sons of Washington county who bade farewell to home and friends at the head of Lake St. Croix on that April morning over two years before, by reason of sickness, shot and shell only thirty-five answered to the roll-call on the eve of [Gettysburg]..."

Not only does sunshine represent government transparency, it also melts ICE.

I regret to inform the good people of St. Paul that the city's reputation for nonexistent nightlife was earned 169 years ago. (The Weekly Minnesotian, December 6, 1856.)

Snowy woods.

I regret to inform the good people of St. Paul that the city's reputation for nonexistent nightlife was earned 169 years ago. (The Weekly Minnesotian, December 6, 1856.)

I was walking along, carefully watching my step on snow over ice, when I saw where a couple turkeys had slipped.

I switched back to DuckDuckGo as my default search engine. I tried a while ago but didn't think the results were as good as Google. I don't know if DDG has gotten much better, but the Big G has gotten so much worse, I think I'm going to stick with the waterfowl now.

I was walking along, carefully watching my step on snow over ice, when I saw where a couple turkeys had slipped.

"What were once bedrock aspects of daily life and spirituality increasingly appear as infrastructure, background scenery, or perhaps a vague environmental concern."

A wintry winter.