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At the top of South Pass, on the lower edge of the Wind River Range, piles of fragmented stone mine "trash" shine, dark in the late...

Ruthie Davis was one of those childless cat ladies to be feared by some—and revered by many. When I first knew her, she was the point...

Watching a bit of the Paris Olympics after dinner at a friend’s the other night, the joy of international camaraderie was contagious. A...

Hardening our hearts might be a temporary survival option, and yet, surviving the endlessly painful news of a world in ongoing crisis...

Following an obsession might have been life-changing for Kentucky’s Katy Yocum, an associate director of Spalding University’s School of...

for World Snake Day: You have 36:1 odds for a pair of ones in the dice game of craps. Chances are probably higher that you know someone...

She wasn’t completely unpacked yet in her new home on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, but Sylvia Torti broke free for early lunch on the...

My recent trip to Maine surfaced memories of growing up, like this one: a 4-some of baby field mice Dad brought home for his 1st-grader...

If you have been subscribed to my Acoustic Burro blog, you know that Bison Books will publish my first novel on September 1. Today is...

Last weekend, my travels across the wide landscape brought me past bison herds, and found me peering through shaggy legs looking for the...

Once you’ve been to Jeannette Baker’s house, you have no trouble picturing her younger days working with a variety of wildlife species at...

This distinctly amphibian characteristic provides a full-body, secondary breathing system through their moist skin, both when they live...

These short posts give me a chance to amplify positive news of people and planet, and this week’s Feel-Good food is jet fueled. To move...

When life feels like a depressing-as-hell Melissa Etheridge song, you know the one, with the dreary refrain of WorkEatSleepWorkEatSleep,...

Chad Hanson, author of Swimming with Trout, as well as In a Land of Awe, noted an odd discrepancy between the words we use with wild fish...

April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. In the face of animal shelter overcrowding across the U.S., adopting a new feline, canine...

A gravel road with fishing access stretches across sleeping alfalfa and barley fields that line the several braids of our valley's river,...

Looking for positive news of people and planet, my lens has scanned far and wide. For the next year, I’ll tune my story-collector close...

Fanny M. Cornejo is a Peruvian biologist with a postgraduate degree in anthropology and more than 16 years of experience in research and...

(Photo credit: Daniel Ferraz) In 1983, Karen Strier spent her first year of research in the Brazilian rainforest observing northern...