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• Last Gasp

  

  Botanizing in Wyoming in December. Click on photo -- you might see flowers.We’re still holding on, a few wildflowers and I. Others think the growing season is... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 OUTDOORS

• What Do You Know About Plants?

  

  Photos courtesy Arthur Kruckeberg and Dan Poelma.It's time for December’s Berry Go Round, a carnival for bloggers who write about plants. You don't have to be... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2013 OUTDOORS

• Thankful for Poets

  

  Today is Thanksgiving and so we must perform a holiday ritual that hasn’t changed for as far back as I can remember, even though the players are different. Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2013 OUTDOORS

• Autumn Tree Strageties II

  

  Note leaning limber pine emerging from large fissure in granite outcrop, near center of lower left quarter of photo (click on image for better view).I’m... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2013 OUTDOORS

• Figured Stones Or Lithified Body Parts?

  

  The curious stones at the bottom of the illustration look very much like shark’s teeth ... strange coincidence? From Canis carchariæ dissectum caput by N.... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013 OUTDOORS

• Autumn Tree Strategies, I

  

  Lucy of Loose and Leafy has returned to blogging after a summer sabbatical, reminding me that I haven’t posted any news of my two trees this year. Lucy kindly... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2013 OUTDOORS

• Ginkgos and Rhythmites

  

  Our vacation in the flood-ravaged landscapes of the Pacific Northwest came to an end where Interstate Highway 90 crosses Lake Wanapum on the Columbia River. Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2013 OUTDOORS

• Ghosts in the Rocks

  

  See them? (click on photo for a better view)The forecast for the day was hot -- 100º F -- but we didn’t bother with an early start. After all, we were on... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• More Vacation Fun: Kolk Lakes & Pothole Swarms

  

  Might this be the way to Wonderland?In my most recent post about Ice Age Mega-floods in the Pacific Northwest, I wrote that there were kolks dancing in the... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• Fun in the Scablands

  

  In the scablands. As their name suggests, these are lands that haven't healed.Try telling friends you went to the scablands of eastern Washington for vacation. Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• When a Botanist Must Be a Geologist

  

  Geologic map of Wyoming; Love and Christiansen (1985); click image to view.“A geologic map is a portrait of the surface of the Earth ... This map of Wyoming... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• How the Palouse Was Lost

  

  On the Outlaws Trail by Sharon Bodily. Available at Western Art Association Auction Art.“I tell ya Tom ... there was a time when these hills were all in grass,... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• Blog Like an Artist

  

  Maybe you’re like me. Maybe you can’t quite make a living pursuing your dreams and you get a day job, thereby throwing away valuable hours that could be... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• What Do These Two Specimens Have in Common?

  

  Hint #1:In situ. Proud geo-geek for scale.Hint #2: They have nothing to do with Ice Age Mega-floods.Hint #3:Where on Google Earth? (click on photo for better... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 OUTDOORS

• Lakes and Floods of Unimaginable Proportions

  

  Traveling north on Montana Highway 200 -- 15,000 years ago.Continuing along the trail of Ice Age Mega-floods, we arrived at Sand Point, Idaho, site of the ice... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2013 OUTDOORS

• Cedars of the Thuja Kind

  

  "the branches appear flattened as if they had been ironed" (Rocky Mt Tree Finder)During our recent tour of Pleistocene flood landscapes we were driving through... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 OUTDOORS

• Of Mosses and Mountains II and AW #60

  

  The Apennines -- home to momentous discoveries in geology.As mentioned earlier, my summer reading included two outstanding books about natural history. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 OUTDOORS

• The “Unusual Currents” of JT Pardee

  

  Looking east-southeast from interpretive sign on Road 382.This is Camas Prairie in northwest Montana, home to some very curious ridges and swales (mid-ground... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 OUTDOORS

• FFF: Glacial Lake Missoula

  

  One of Montana Department of Transportation's great roadside signs.FFF stands for “Five Fact Friday”, a creation of Tim Havenith at Notes of Nature. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2013 OUTDOORS

• Where Every Natural History Blogger Should Be Situated

  

  From The Guardian.Nobel Laureate and beloved poet Seamus Heaney passed away last week. In reading thoughts and excerpts posted by his friends and followers, I... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2013 OUTDOORS