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Fun fact for Arbor Day:  There are now 99 elms encircling the CSU Oval and lining its walkways. So reports an April 2022 story on Colorado S...

Robins are good parents. Both mom and dad brings food to the chicks. When the adult robin alights on the nest, the movement prompts sightles...

Between sunup and sundown on a May day, a robin built a nest on my solar system. When I say solar system, I mean to the control box that mon...

When I was in Jackson Hole over the weekend, people were plenty sore about the Republican-spawned national park shutdown. Hotel reservations...

This comes from the fine folks over at the Wyoming Outdoor Council: Listening to Nature is an annual community event featuring readings a...

From a press release from the Wyoming Wilderness Association: The Wyoming Wilderness Association is excited to be hosting a weekend of ar...

What I'm noticing this morning: tiny clover growing at the root of my awakening strawberry plants. I have been reading my way throug...

File under "That Darn Federal Gubment:" President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Wyoming because of spring and su...

On Monday, I was musing about my garden and telling you folks out home about my wonderful high plains strawberries. I ended the post with t...

Hymenoxys grandiflora by Susan Marsh, from Wyoming Native Plant Society web site . This is cool (in more ways than one): Planting is und...

Tea Party Slim has recreation on his mind this Fourth of July weekend. "Glendo?" I asked, mentioning a state park about 90 mi...

Floods in Basin along the Big Horn River. Saratoga swamped by the North Platte. Creeks creeping toward flood stage in Sheridan and Johnson c...

DAN CEPEDA Star-Tribune:    Vicky Marlow takes snapshots of the swollen North Platte River near the whitewater park in Casper on Friday af...

Joplin, Missouri, is about the same size as Cheyenne, Wyoming. If a tornado wiped out one-third of Cheyenne and killed 132 residents, we w...

Put this under the heading of "we don't need that darn federal gubment." All of us in the West love the national parks and na...

I'm not surprised by the fact that the anti-science wing of the G.O.P. has taken over Congress . That's what they campaigned on. But...

Daily Kos going crazy with posts about Wyoming (see earlier one from today). This one is about the rush to obtain unobtainium and other asso...

Neat Daily Kos post on the Jackson Hole National Monument