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How to Prepare Physically for a Wildlife Expedition Over 50
Getting ready for a wildlife expedition for women over 50 takes the same kind of preparation at 55 as it does at 35. What changes when booking is that most women booking their first trip in their 50s or 60s have not done a physically active vacation in a while, so the...
Why I Started Her Wild Life, as Told to ShoutOut Colorado
ShoutOut Colorado recently asked me about starting Her Wild Life, and a few of my answers are worth expanding on here, since they explain the actual reasoning behind this company rather than just the pitch version of it. Why Her Wild Life Actually Exists Her Wild Life...
Why I Talked About Connecting People with Nature on the Women Birders Happy Hour Podcast
I recently joined Hannah on the Women Birders Happy Hour podcast, a show built around exactly what it sounds like: good conversation with women who love birds. We covered a lot of ground: my own path into birding, the community I built here in Colorado, and how Her...
What Are the Best Wildlife Trips for Women Over 50?
The best wildlife trips for women over 50 are chosen the same way any woman chooses one: by the animal or place she has wanted for years, and the timing that finally makes it happen. These are the same expeditions every Her Wild Life traveler books, run the same way,...
Are Monarch Butterflies Endangered?
Are monarch butterflies endangered? By one measure, yes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the monarch as Endangered in 2022. By another measure, the answer is more complicated. In the United States, the monarch still has no federal protection...
Where Do Monarch Butterflies Go in Winter? Inside Mexico’s Monarch Migration
Where do monarch butterflies go in winter? Millions of them fly as far as 3,000 miles from the northern United States and southern Canada to a small cluster of mountain forests in central Mexico, arriving by early November and staying until March. It is one of the...
Bison Facts: The Ecosystem Engineers of Yellowstone
Bison are the animal most people expect to see in Yellowstone and the one whose actual impact on the landscape most visitors never hear about. Beyond the size and the horns, bison reshape the ground they walk on, and Yellowstone's herd is the reason wild American...
Fun Facts About Yellowstone’s Wildlife: Wolves, Bison, Bears and More
Yellowstone is one of the last places on Earth where an entire large mammal food web still runs the way it evolved to. Six ungulate species and seven large predators share roughly 2.2 million acres, and the relationships between them read less like a nature...
What to Pack for a Wildlife Trip to Costa Rica
Most guides to what to pack for Costa Rica are written for the whole country, offering one long list that covers the beach, the volcano, and the cloud forest all at once. This one is built around a single, specific trip, one of the Costa Rica trips for women that Her...
Scarlet Macaw Facts, Costa Rica’s Most Iconic Bird
Scarlet macaws are among the most recognizable birds on Earth, and one of the tropical birds Costa Rica is most closely associated with. The Osa Peninsula is one of the last strongholds where a wild, self-sustaining population has never disappeared. Here are the...
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