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All About Griff!
I have dedicated my life to wildlife conservation, mentoring young conservationists, while celebrating the outdoors and the people who work there. Check out this video to to learn a little be more about me. And how I like to bust a move!
Wild Jobs on Animal Planet GO
I love animals so much, I am happy to work for THEM. Join me as I roll up my sleeves to spend one day as an intern at a different animal reserves in Wild Jobs.
Griff’s Wild Tips: Report Poachers! They Suck!
Have you ever gone to a nature preserve or park and received a talk from an interpretive ranger about respecting the park and its resources and then a hour later you see someone else who got the same exact talk harass, injure, capture, collect, or kill an animal or plant that you came to see?! […]
Griff’s Wild Tips: Fawn Nappers!
Don’t be a fawn napper! I’m Griff and welcome to Griff’s Wild Tips. This blog post accompanies the video on my YouTube channel titled, Griff’s Wild Tips: Don’t be a Fawn Napper. I hope the video helps you, help others, help fawns. Why do fawns need help? The problem is that every Spring and Summer […]
Griff’s Wild Tips: How to Make Seed Bombs (AKA Seed Balls).
Making native plant seed bombs (AKA seed balls) is a great way to engage friends and family into helping you save the world! Well… you will at least save some pollinators and maybe some of the plants and predators that depend on them. Native plants evolved with the other players in their local eco-game, which […]
Latest Blogs
Most of my adult life has been spent as a supervisor in a youth development (corps) program. I lead groups of young adults, often from distressed communities, to restore natural areas and wildlife populations in a process I call “re-wilding. And sometimes I write about it.
Somewhere Over the Fogbow
After parking our big rig near the entrance to the gun club at Manila, I got out and went around to the back of the large truck to let my crew of ten California Conservation Corps members out. They seemed to move a little slower than usual, so I barked, “Let’s go! Put your gloves […]
Blackberry Popsicle
After an early spring hike on southern Humboldt’s first warm day of 2002, I took the Avenue of the Giants north towards home. My thoughts weaved between focusing on the road and fantasizing about food. Up ahead, I saw a card table decorated with daffodils. I slowed enough to hear two little girls yelling in […]
Brood Patch
In the flood plain of Prairie Creek, a few miles north of a small town called Orick, there’s a meadow I often walk through to spy on birds or escape the dark-closed canopy of fog-scraping redwoods. In the winter it’s a flooded swamp; during the summer it’s a field of sun-loving plants that cannot […]