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• A Powell Palmetto Perhaps?

  

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  Posted on 10 February 2017 OUTDOORS

• A Tree Fell … Did You Hear?

  

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  Posted on 30 January 2017 OUTDOORS

• “so Many Fossils That People Cry”

  

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  Posted on 20 January 2017 OUTDOORS

• A New Year, a New Tree

  

  Dreaming of a subtropical Wyoming (source).p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span. Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2017 OUTDOORS

• More Story-telling Rocks

  

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  Posted on 03 January 2017 OUTDOORS

• 2017 Wishes, Plans and a Resolution

  

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  Posted on 29 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• What Are These Rocks Telling Us?

  

  “The heart of field geology is going up to rocks and getting them to tell you their stories” (source).Beneath us are hundreds of feet of rock, often in layers... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• In Search of a Tree

  

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  Posted on 10 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• A Pioneering Geologist on Uinta Plants

  

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  Posted on 02 December 2016 OUTDOORS

• About That Pipeline in Jesse Ewing Canyon …

  

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  Posted on 22 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Devils Tower—What’s on Top? (updated)

  

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  Posted on 15 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Back to the Misty Mountain

  

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  Posted on 11 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Surprise Geo-hike in the Eastern Uinta Mountains

  

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  Posted on 04 November 2016 OUTDOORS

• Evolution of a Storyteller

  

  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Several weeks ago, I was set... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Plant on a Pedestal

  

  Awe-inspiring!This month I’m making an oblique and tenuous segue from Tree-Following, for I have no news to report of my serviceberry. After a long vacation, al... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Glacial Beauty in the High Uintas

  

  Glacial-sculpted quartzite in the high Uinta Mountains (answer to recent Geo-challenge).Fifty years ago this fall, I chose a topic for my first science paper. Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2016 OUTDOORS

• Geo-challenge: Range? Rock? Process?

  

  Where is this immense gallery of scratched and polished carvings? Who was the sculptor? What was the clay?Ideas, answers? Please add a Comment below. A post wil... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• Of Quartzite and Lily Pads

  

  Hayden Peak, constructed of sandstone and quartzite masonry on a Cyclopean scale.“… the view of one of these mountain lakes, with its deep-green water and fring... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• A Tree and a Rock

  

  This month I have no news about the serviceberry I’m following. I’m far from home, in a warmer drier land. So instead, here’s a report of a tree I came across o... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2016 OUTDOORS

• Stromatolite Pilgrimage

  

  Mecca!Stromatolite Hike, my seventh post, was the one that got me hooked on blogging. It was the first one I was pleased with. Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 OUTDOORS