Of the myriad celestial wonders that greet observers of the late summertime Colorado sky, none is more impressive than the faint irregular band of light that we call the Milky Way. Stretching across the early […]
When the Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center and the City of Fort Collins reintroduced the once-thought-extinct black-footed ferret to the high-plains prairie of Soapstone Natural Area in September 2014, all involved knew it would be a […]
I topped the familiar rise and half-walked, half-slid down the gray, soft-clay soil of Baculite Mesa on the lookout for fossil shells on one of Colorado’s ancient seafloors. On the rolling plain below, the cone-shaped […]
As Earth wheels about the sun in its vast, nearly 200-million-mile diameter orbit, from time to time it encounters dusty debris that has been boiled and blown from the heads of comets as they periodically […]
I drove into the south parking lot at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area on May 7 without much hope of seeing many people or bison. A cold mist made this Saturday a poor candidate for regaling […]
I’m old enough to remember the days of scribbling text on Big Chief Tablets. I typed final drafts on heavy-keyed typewriters that required strong fingers and a bottle of Wite-Out® nearby to rectify mistakes and […]
The Colorado State Forest Service is now accepting orders on a first-come, first-serve basis for low-cost seedling trees, shrubs and perennials grown at its Fort Collins nursery. More than 100 species and size options are […]
National Bat Week, a campaign to inspire Americans to help protect bats, kicks off Oct. 25. The initiative is important to Colorado, home of 18 species of bats, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife who monitors […]
Wild things. They frighten, amaze, inspire, excite, humble and move us. They quicken our pulses and seem to make us vibrate at some more primitive frequency. Dogs look at us with friendship and appeasement while […]
So it’s the El Nino that might just eat west Los Angeles, or as one NOAA forecaster put it, the “Godzilla El Nino.” “Every since he let that slip, it’s given everyone a chance to […]
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