Jack Greene

Native Americans ate Ponderosa seeds either raw or made into a bread and also consumed the sweet, edible phloem in the inner bark.

The Rocky Mountain elk is Utah’s state mammal for good reason. No one can deny its majesty and uncanny intelligence while being hunted, and the spine tingling bugle released in fall mountain splendor.

When beaver invade and destroy several thousand dollars-worth of trees in his neighbor's yard in Smithfield, Jack Greene offers solutions.

Jack Greene reflects on seeing peregrine falcons coupling, his grandkids' appreciation for box elder bugs, and turkeys causing mayhem in downtown Logan as he gives thanks for a wild Utah.

Jack Greene writes, "I consider tree squirrels to be on par with many primates for intelligence and agility. Those who have bird feeders may agree with me as they vainly attempt to thwart squirrel’s from invading their feeders."

Valerie Segrest once said, “Harvesting berries can be a powerful meditation, centering us in the power of 'now.' ... Tangibly interacting with food that is so wired into its life source is otherworldly, and it reminds us of a time when humans were more directly connected to the origins of our food."

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity,”

Jack Greene celebrates how Utah has benefited from Hispanic and Latinx people.

Thank goodness we have awakened to the value of predators in maintaining healthy ecosystems, and for their aesthetic and spiritual value.

Jack Greene recalls a moonlight stroll listening to the calls of tiny owls.