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Two book recommendations for Naturalists, Biologists, and Teachers
Years ago when I first entered graduate school, I went to see E. Raymond Hall about the possibility of a job. Dr. Hall was a legend and someone I really wanted to work with, if possible. At the time, despite his lifelong passion with mammals he was trying to help conserve the tall-grass prairie ecosystem.…
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A Long Walk….
A Long Walk…. For more than two years, Randy and I had been trying to synchronize our summer schedules so that we could fish together, again in southern Colorado. In the interim, we both made several trips to Colorado and tried out all kinds of water. One of those wilderness streams, I wrote about earlier…
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Azolla anyone?
While trying to find some swamp milkweed and some monarchs out at the Baker Wetlands, I happened to notice the canal’s normal lush duckweed population was turning spotty and brown. I said to Carol that I think that is Azolla–a water fern. Azolla is a nitrogen fixer through a symbiotic interaction with a…
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Colorado Cutthroat Slam
One of the apparent universals of the human condition is the desire to collect, to possess or to hoard not only things, but ideas or even just experiences. On Facebook different polls appear in waves that seek to measure “How many states you’ve visited?” “Which of these books have you read?” or “Which of these…
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Colorado Fishing 2012—part 2
Again, Carol and I rolled into our campground at dusk. Again, we chose the last campground in the headwaters of another famous Colorado river known for large trout and lots of flyfishers. This year we had a short window of about 4 days to spend together before she had to head back. Of course, I…
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Finally…
Like most of us, it has been too long since I’ve prowled the banks of a trout stream but finally after a summer of back to back to back workshops and meetings along with endless days in the triple digits, I finally was able to find the time. Following a weeklong workshop in Colorado Springs,…
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What the Robin Knows–Introducing a book by Jon Young to my grand daughter
http://whattherobinknows.com/ A couple of months ago I managed to get a copy of Jon Young’s, “What the Robin Knows”. At the time I was a bit intrigued and a bit skeptical at the same time. (2019 edit/update: I’ve followed more of Jon’s work and I am not at all convinced of some of his “tracking”…
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Mead’s?
Here’s one of the Mead’s Milkweed sites at the KU Field station’s demonstration prairie at the Armitage Center. The plot was recently burned and it is easy to see the marked sites. Here’s two more sites. Sorry for the photo quality–I still haven’t mastered my iphone camera….
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Farewell Tour
In 45 years of buying cars and trucks I’ve never had a vehicle that I just couldn’t part with when the time came. In fact, almost without exception each vehicle I’ve owned has grown tiresome with repairs and idiosyncrasies that created more of an urgent need to simply get rid of it and get a…
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Lady Slippers in April
I went over to Johnson County this evening to check on some lady slipper orchids that I try and monitor each year. These particular plants went missing for more than ten years. I refound them last year but I was not able to catch them in bloom, in fact I don’t think they did or…
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