Notebook of a Digital Naturalist

The origin story of the Macroscope—hauling video equipment up Black Mountain to create the world's first interactive multimedia nature walk on Apple II and laserdisc.

A contentious meeting with the Forest Service over logging 120 ancient trees at Black Mountain reveals the conflict between traditional forestry and modern ecosystem science.

The pile of cut and stacked logs towered thirty feet over our heads as my colleagues and I diligently counted the minuscule rings. Two hundred and fifty rings—more than qualifying this stand as an Old Growth Forest.

Thirty-year population trend data for eleven old growth dependent bird species breeding in the Black Mountain Scenic Area of the San Jacinto Mountains.