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The New Outdoors

Where wellness and nature meet

Lisa Schamess in The New Outdoors

Paradise Is Just Where You Left It

We can get back to Eden — right at home

Carol Labuzzetta, MS Natural Resources, MS Nursing in The New Outdoors

A Walk in the Woods Photo Journal

Early summer fungi found on the trail

Emily Gibson in The New Outdoors

Poetry

Gravity of Silence

Some places carry greater weight

Stella Walsh, BA (Ed), ATh in The New Outdoors

a large mature oak tree in a park setting

How I Spend Quality Time with a Tree

It’s a renewing mini-vacation. Go find a destination tree today.

Kay Pierce in The New Outdoors

A delicate spider web decorated with drops of dew shines in the early morning sunlight.

Spider-Me: From Arachnophobe to Arachnophile

Learning to coexist with nature, even when it walks on…

Emily Gibson in The New Outdoors

Poetry/Nature

Tides of Invertebrate Deaths

Life’s message, spoken in antennas and wings.

Aaron Paulson in The New Outdoors

TRAVEL ESSAY

Mount Mitakesan: A Mountain Powerspot in Tokyo’s Outskirts

Quentin Septer in The New Outdoors

The 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps’ Buffalo Soldiers, en route to St. Louis, circa 1897. Image credit: Mansfield Library University of Montana

The Poetry of Cycling

Mountain biking is much older than you might think, but the ethos of the sport…

Emily Gibson in The New Outdoors

Poetry/Nature

Message in a Grasshopper

Newborn grasshopper chameleoned on our back door.

Dave Scott in The New Outdoors

A gravel path stretches out into the distant mountains with trees on the right and fields with a barn on the left

Ride the Willapa

An enjoyable weekend pedaling

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