Mike Sweeney with his daughter and her friend at Pinnacles National Park (c) The Nature Conservancy.

One of California's best kept secrets is blown. This is a bummer for me, since Pinnacles National Monument has been my secret for years - the secret to...

Growing our food in the dirt in the open air, as we've been doing since the dawn of agriculture, comes with some risks. They're rare, but they're there. The spinach E. coli outbreak that happened quite a few years ago is one example. It made national news and sparked a...

Earlier this month global climate negotiations wrapped up for the 17th time in Durban, South Africa. An agreement to continue to talk and hopefully agree on a treaty binding to...

My daughter and I love to fish (on my iPhone). She's 2; I'm a bit older, but we're both excellent anglers (on my iPhone). Flick Fishing and...

On September 20, 1977 the character Fonzie played by Henry Winkler made television history. He was one of the stars of Happy Days, and in the episode that aired that night he literally jumped over a confined shark while water-skiing -- all while wearing swimming trunks and his...

Of the current Congress, 204 members have participated as a member of or an adult volunteer in the Boy Scouts. I don't remember much from my own scouting days, apart from how to start a fire and pitch a tent, but the big takeaway is right in the...

I don't tend to go around quoting glam metal power ballads, but Cinderella's 1988 hit single had it right -- you often don't know what you got till it's gone. The video for the song was filmed at Mono Lake, where it so happens that Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve,...