HeyJaredKingfisher Journey- Marina Richie
Join me in a deep dive into wildness and saving all we can--in prose and poetry. I'm the author of Halcyon Journey, In Search of the Belted Kingfisher (2024 John Burroughs Medal) and Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees (Sept. 2026).
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“On Fire!” Speaking Up for Nature’s Wild Ways (opens the original)
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“You are on fire!” A friend wrote that compliment on a Facebook post I put up after my Portland Powell’s Book event September 14th (in conversation with Ferris Jabr). That got my morning brain spinning with my first cup of coffee before returning to the next phase of the Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient Trees book tour (six events in the next ten days—three in Washington and three in Vermont).<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
For the Love of Birds & Trees: Save Every Roadless Area (opens the original)
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“To find climate refugia, I look for the roadless areas—the glorious blank spots on maps free of roads.”— Marina Richie, Feathered Forest: Aloft with Birds in Ancient ForestsIn two weeks on Tuesday, September 8th, my new book, Feathered Forest, will be on bookshelves and my ambitious tour schedule officially begins. I will read and share my love of birds and wild forests, the way birds guide us upwards into a hidden realm of wondrous ecological relationships. I’ll tell
Timeless Hiking on Great Glen Way (opens the original)
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I’m high above Loch Ness on rumpled hills and glens of blooming purple heather, gorse bushes fierce with thorns, bracken ferns, and flowing moor grasses bent eastward by a stiff wind from Scotland’s west coast. There’s no monster to be seen on the shimmering loch stretching 22 miles along part of the Great Glen fault. But the loch is as deep as the stories of a place that stirs within my Scottish roots. Secrets stir. Some are darker than the shimmering waters.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewa
Interdependence Day! (opens the original)
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I sent this out on my E-News today and am extending to my Substack audience. If you’d like to subscribe to that as well as Substack, it’s typically only once a month. Sign up on any page of my website—scroll down : marinarichie.com.I’d also like to add another resource, thanks to information I just received from my artist friend and activist Liz Fox: Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment. And I’d love to hear from people in other states on similar amendments and Right to Nature
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