“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen. An ecologist must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.”
Aldo Leopold in Essays From Round River
Brian Creek is a trout bum, naturalist, iconoclast, & bio-regionalist who is at home and happiest in northern Michigan, among familiar plants, birds, animals, landscapes and the Great Lakes. (If you are interested in the long story, click here.)
J.P. Savage is a mugwump, semi-hermit and trout bum living in the woods of northern Michigan.


Anybody that quotes both Aldo Leopold and John Wesley Powell on the same page can’t be all bad.
Charlie Weaver
Hey! If that gets out it could ruin a fella’s reputation!
Brian Creek