Planting in a week when it would not stop raining
Eleven volunteers, a hillside of willow stakes, and a lesson about where not to park.
March 2, 2026 · Four minute read
The Journal
Field notes, written down before we forget them
Short pieces from staff and volunteers about particular days on particular creeks. No campaigns, no appeals — just what the ground was doing that week.
This month
August 24, 2026 · Ben Hallowell · Six minute read
What a thermometer in a shaded creek is actually telling you
Every August we get the same question from the same three people, and it is a good one: does the shade really change the water, or does it just change how the water looks? Here is what the record from the South Fork says, and where it stays quiet.
The archive
Everything we have written down
The second generation signs the same agreement
What happens when the family that made the promise hands the farm to the people who have to keep it.
February 9, 2026 · Five minute read
Sixteen volunteers, one very cold Saturday
Calibration day at the office, and why we still read gauges by eye.
January 19, 2026 · Three minute read
The estuary walk nobody could hear
A south-easterly, a rising tide and forty minutes of pointing at things.
December 6, 2025 · Three minute read
Why we leave the logjam alone
The most useful thing in this reach arrived by itself, in the dark, during a flood.
November 15, 2025 · Four minute read
Reading an old survey on a kitchen table
Plat maps, a coffee ring from 1962, and the corner nobody could find.
October 28, 2025 · Six minute read
By post and by email
We send a letter four times a year
Paper if you want paper, email if you do not. It carries the walk calendar, one field note, and nothing else. Ask the office and we will add you.