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EDITOR'S CORNER Kayo Robertson
The air we breathe. This air ocean in which we swim. Does it come as a wind?

Kayo Roberston
Sep 18


ON THE ROAD TO APOCALYPSE Dr. Brian Moench
...it's too many climate deniers controlling public policy and a lack of courage in everyone else.
Brian Moench
Sep 16


WHAT IS HARDER TO SEE Patrick Belmont
The first step toward relational repair is to begin seeing the relationships more clearly.

Patrick Belmont
Sep 15


FEATURED NATURALIST Interview with Dale Nielsen
Among my influences I had some fabulous professors in the department of biology. A lot of them were WWII veterans.

Dale Neilson
Sep 10


RIDING WONDER by Jessa Young
I’ve been passionate about the night sky ever since I was a child. Back then, I could lie down in my yard in Cache Valley and see the whole Milky Way. My wonder rode on a river of starlight, to the far reaches of my imagination as my mind explored space. Milky Way by Aaron Watson Later in my college days I discovered the joy of backpacking into wilderness. I couldn't wait to gaze upward and receive the streams of inspiration and light that are stars. The twinkles I saw from t
Jessa Young
Sep 10


TAMING TORNADOES or *Thank God They Cannot Cut Down the Clouds* Pecos Bill
When I was young America was great again. Nothing got out of hand because we controlled . . .

Kayo Roberston
Sep 9


MUSIC IN THE AIR Jon Gudmundson
There are a few human activities that are primal, and deep, and never boring; these include watching clouds move across the sky...
Jon Gudmundson
Sep 7


A CACHE OF BIRDS Reported by Ken Watkins
E-bird Report of Birds Observed ~ Tues 22 Sep 2026 ~ 58 North Main St ~ Mendon, Utah Stationary ~ 1 person ~ Time: 2 hr, 2 min Arrived at the house to grab scope and head up to the foothills for hawks, though an explosion of passerines/migrants around the yard changed plans. Large flocks of YRWA with other warblers intermixed. Somewhat shocking number of Townsend's. MOCH in numbers, nuthatch, grosbeaks, etc. Several waves coming from north end of town foraging their way sout

cachevalleywinds
Sep 4


IF I WERE THE WIND . . . Aldo Leopold
The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playful swirls, and the wind hurries on. In the marsh, long windy waves surge across the grassy sloughs, beat against the far willows. A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind. On the sandbar there is only wind, and the river sliding seaward. Every wisp of grass is drawing circles on the sand. I wander over the bar to a driftwoo
Aldo Leopold
Sep 3
Issue #3 - Sept 2026


FEATURED NATURALIST INTERVIEW
What is a naturalist?

Val Grant
Jun 8


Anonymous RURAL VOICES
What real people say, farmers edition.

cachevalleywinds
Jun 8


HERMIT THRUSH
Horse and rider break on together in the early morning frost.

Laurie Rich
Jun 8


Coyotes and Owls
An excerpt from Herding Sheep in Northern Utah
(1998; pp. 80-82)
By Laurie Rich

Laurie Rich
Jun 8


PREDATION
As hunting skills disappear, what skills will bring us intimately into the natural world and temper our vast ignorance of that world?

Kayo Roberston
Jun 8


TOUCHSTONE
Education teaches us to research and check out the data we are given by referencing numerous

cachevalleywinds
Jun 8


TO GROW ALFALFA
Typical farm equipment costs and profit projections for alfalfa growing in Cache Valley, Utah.

cachevalleywinds
Jun 8


FARMING IN CACHE VALLEY
Why don't the farmers in Cache Valley grow something other than high-water-use alfalfa and cows?

cachevalleywinds
Jun 8


Editor's Corner
"If attention is paid, the land begins to speak its own truths"

Kayo Roberston
Jun 8
Issue #2 - June 2026


Living The Dream: Insights On Quaking Aspen
Listen. Set aside your binoculars, life list, notepad, camera, and listen. Quiet and sitting among stately white stems, close your eyes and extend a finger to count each distinct sound.

cachevalleywinds
Mar 21


WALKING THE BEAR
Rivers are all about renewal. No matter how we dam them, divert them, shunt them through concrete or steel, they renew themselves eventually. Rivers replenish.

cachevalleywinds
Mar 21


ROCK TO JADE
After destruction always comes renewal. The Phoenix doesn't rise from the verdant forest but from the ash.

cachevalleywinds
Mar 21


Signs of Renewal
In nature, renewal happens everywhere, on both vast and short timescales.

cachevalleywinds
Mar 21


FEATURED NATURALIST INTERVIEW: JACK GREENE
We have this remarkable quality in our cranium that is useful to try to understand as best we can how these things work. Our curiosity, our deep desire to learn about things around us.

cachevalleywinds
Mar 21
Issue #1 - March 2026
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