Early Summer at Eagle Bluffs

Early to mid summer is often the least interesting time of year to visit Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, southwest of Columbia.  The migrant...

Aggressive Young Men

We encounter them on a regular basis, especially on our highways.  They race up from behind, riding our bumper and flashing their lights, de...

East to the Trees

Except for desert species, which are equipped with a deep tap root, a widely radiating root system, small transient leaves and twigs capable...

The Evolution of Science & Religion

In order to survive, early man had to learn a great deal about his natural environment.  At the same time, his complex brain led him to imag...

Brushpile Assassins

A pair of eight-spotted skimmers have been hunting at our brushpile over the past week.  Skimmers are a family of dragonflies and the eight-...

A Thistle Garden

In the wild corner of our Littleton, Colorado, farm is a swath of bull thistles.  Just common weeds to most suburbanites, worthy of immediat...

Natural History of Sea Turtles

Turtles evolved in the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic Era, some 200 million years ago, a time when small dinosaurs and the first, shrew-lik...