Kyle Forest

Wildlife are all around us. They are in our backyard, in our woods, and right next to us when we are stomping down the trail for our morning walk. Modern humans are so unaware, our senses are so dull from our over-sensitized technosphere, our minds are so noisy with the our human centered problems, that I would wager that the vast majority of people would walk past a hunting Bobcat without ever know it's there... like I (almost) did the other morning at the Remick Country Doctor Museum and...

I've lived and explored and tracked in Tamworth for 8 years now. It's a small town but I've noticed that my routines and habits and attention reduce the size of the town. I tend to walk the same paths, roads, and hiking trails.... and of course I walk them in the same direction. I get caught in the habit of familiarity. I first walk a path in a certain way to explore, did I walk it the same way the next time so I didn't get lost? Maybe I walked it the third time in the same way because it...

Following a light snow from two nights previous, we struck out into the heart of the Ossipee Mountains, and blue skies and a warming sun welcomed us. Just off the road we found some obscured tracks leading to an area we initially thought was a bed but there was a layer of dirt in the middle of the snow pack. And we noticed some feathers sticking out of the ground. We started excavating the area and we kept finding more and more feathers Based on the size of the feathers and the mottled...