Author Archives: By Donna Barnett

An hour’s drive north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, 700-pound Tule elk roam in a magical land with a power to transport tranquility-seekers back thousands of years to a time when Coast Miwok people inhabited what is today’s 71,028-acre Point Reyes National Seashore.  Created in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy in order to […]

The threatened northern spotted owl is perched on a 2,000-year-old redwood tree 370 feet above an enchanted forest floor of moss, ferns and three-leaf clovers. Chocolate-brown eyes are surrounded by chestnut brown feathers with small white spots. The elegant raptor looks at the magnificent world of old-growth trees, providing a home to woodpeckers, salamanders, flying […]