Feb 26, 2023
Bears tend to scare us when we’re outdoors and they’re not behind steel bars. Particularly grizzly bears. They’re big, with sharp claws and powerful jaws, and seem to be in a bad mood whenever we spot them. We hear about people being mauled to death by bears, and even of black bears attacking campers in...
Feb 19, 2023
For more than a decade, Colorado College has sponsored a poll to gauge conservation sentiments of residents in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada. Over the years, the questions have ranged from whether the members of the public view themselves as conservationists, whether...
Feb 12, 2023
The US Geological Survey operates five different volcano
observatories around the country. These observatories monitor
real-time volcanic, hydrothermal, and earthquake activity in
Alaska, the Cascade Mountains, California’s Long Valley Caldera,
Yellowstone National Park, and the State of Hawaii.
There are virtual...
Feb 5, 2023
It is one of the longest units of the National Park System in the country. "It," of course, is the Oregon National Historic Trail, which stretches more than 2,100 miles from Missouri to Oregon. It’s been estimated that between 1840 and 1860 some 300,000-400,000 men, women, and children embarked on the four-month-long...