For hikers, backpackers, birders, skiers, and others who love the natural environment
How will climate change affect your love of the mountains, deserts , rivers and forests.
Content Areas
Being an environmental scientist, educator, speaker, and long-distance backpacker, I share experiences of a half-century and a look at the future.
Science
My goal is to educate about recent and important science findings that tell the impact of climate change. Take part in citizen science. Contact me for free speaking engagements.
Nature lovers
My goal is to reach out to nature lovers of all stripes with information on how nature affects our health.
Climate refugees
Find out about how climate change will drive heat danger, drought, extreme weather, megafires, sea level rise and loss of agriculture causing massive migrations,
What I do
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Author, writer and speaker
I have several books you might like and have contributed to hiker, and park magazines.
Event: Jan. 12, 1pm Golden Library presentation.
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Blogger
I will post stories, ideas and opinions on the environmental future of America and the world and what you can do about it. Click to download.
Experience
Scientist from government, university, and consulting. Author, Triple Crown hiker, wilderness skills instructor, trip leader, wilderness advocate.
50y experience
WhAT Can I Do?
Advocate for change, VOTE, reduce your carbon footprint and plastic, volunteer for conservation work.
✓ carbon footprint calculators
✓ Conservation organizations
Books and articles
Triple Crown Hiking Adventures
Follow “Speed” on his hike completions of the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail and learn about the Triple Crown, hiking culture as well as environmental history. Available on Amazon.
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Colorado Trail in Crisis: A Naturalist’s Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems
“Speed” “has two completions of the 500-mile CT. The second in 2021 shows dramatic changes and focuses on how climate change is affecting our forests, snowpack, wildfire and beetles. Available on Amazon and University Press of Colorado (UpColorado.com).
★★★★★
Pacific Crest Trail Association Communicator
“Speed” hikes the John Muir Trail in the High Sierra again after 18 years and sees spectacular scenery but significant forest mortality.
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Have Questions?
Frequently Asked
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Tips for Long-distance hikers
As a 15,000 mile hiker and wilderness instructor, I will post tips about what approach, conditioning, and gear to help you be successful in your hikes.
Buy from me
For Colorado Trail in Crisis, if you don’t like Amazon, or want a discount, you can buy from me. See Contact me below.
Why hiking?
I have found that in our ultra-busy lives of traffic, passwords, social media, paying bills, permits etc., that I find renewal and physical fitness in my nature fix.
Favorite Hikes
For scenery – PCT; for wild remote travel – CDT; for social and temperate forest – AT; for highest elevation – CT; abroad – Kilimanjaro, Tour de Mount Blanc, Machu Picchu.
How can I reduce my carbon footprint?
Get an EV, get off natural gas, install extra insulation, get a heat pump and get tax credits too! Be an advocate against fossil fuels. By carbon offsets for air travel. Avoid beef.
Is my home safe from climate disaster?
Avoid coastal areas, the wildland-urban wildfire interface, floodplains, heat exposure in southern states, tornado and hurricane habitat.
Have additional questions?
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