Beautiful bat in Mystery Cave.

Attending the National Cave and Karst Management Symposium. We visited a couple of caves with pictographs and learned about impacts to the preservation of them.

First time seeing a wolverine.

Bark Ranger Cody and his human spent 8 days paddling 75 miles in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Protecting these wild places is so important for all of us.

Jim Brandenburg's film crew visited Mystery Cave.

I'm sorry. People can be really mean.

Crossing Dragons Jaw Lake in Mystery Cave.

Hiking along the south branch Root River in the Driftless.

Caving with some new and enthusiastic folks yesterday.

Monarchs in my yard!

Michigan lily, purple fringed orchids and one happy dog. Get outside!

Enjoying lightning bugs and birds.

A beautiful lake; n Mystery Cave with raft cones.

Nice clouds moving in.

Coldwater Cave never disappoints.

In my happy place with the critters that make me happy. Can you see her?

Coming out of a real tight passage in Mystery Cave.

Just us women to surveying in Mystery Cave today.

Bark Ranger Cody enjoying the boat ride and the wind blowing somewhere.

The wild flowers are blooming in the park.

What would we do without public lands?

Storm from my driveway.

Enjoying the beautiful spring in the Driftless Area with Bark Ranger be Cody.

If you could read my mind. Do better humans!

Mankato yesterday.

Are inspiring when you can hold an animal that lived thousands of years ago then see their modern day relatives roam a prairie.

"There is a way to be good again." Bark Ranger Cody and his human loved the book.

I posed next to this huge chert nodule in Mammoth Cave this weekend. It was a challenge getting there, squirming through corkscrew-like passages. The chert is so resilient to erosion; a good example of how to live life.

A short climb down to the Green River to take a look at this beautiful cave entrance.

We surveyed above Bishop's Pit in Mammoth Cave. Two choices - traverse the pit or take the tight squeeze around. I took the squeeze.