Category: Colorado Mileposts
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Not reindeer, but…
We had a small herd of deer come into our yard this week. We’ve had deer in the neighbor’s yards before (Backyard Deer), but with our dogs, this is the first time in years that they’ve come into ours. The recent cold weather has kept the snow from recent storms on the ground longer than…
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Air Inversion Traps Cold Air, Pollution
Normally on Green Mountain you get a wonderful view of Denver. Often the air is so clear that we can see the terminals of DIA across the Platte valley. Not yesterday. Yesterday, we saw a thick grey smudge across the skyline – pollution held in place by an air inversion. We all know what…
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Suburban Chipmunk
I saw this little chipmunk on our back porch before the snow came. You can tell it’s a chipmunk instead of a ground squirrel because of the lines that start on its face and run all the way down its back. While ground squirrels have lines down their backs, they lines only start after the…
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Colorado Matters Over Trail Ridge Road
Nathan Heffel Fernando-Frescas and I went over Trail Ridge Road recently. Here is the interview that aired on September 28, 2015. As an extra, Colorado Public Radio asked me to do an extra piece on Visiting Rocky Mountain National Park Over Trail Ridge Road with Nathan Heffel Fernando-Frescas
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Interview to air September 29
Two weeks ago Nathan Heffel of Colorado Public Radio and I went over Trail Ridge Road, enjoying the amazing natural history of the Rocky Mountain National Park. Join us as we see wild turkeys and elk, hike to an ancient hunting site, and pause to inspect the head of one of the enormous glaciers that…
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Calliope Hummingbirds
The last of the hummingbirdsare passing through my backyard this month. I happened to get a couple of great shots of some tiny, charming female calliopes buzzing around my rosemary plants. Because the rosemary is in a planter on deck railing, the photos are looking up slightly at the hummers. I love to watch hummingbirds…
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Over Trail Ridge Road with Nathan Heffel of Colorado Public Radio
Last week, I took Nathan Heffel of Colorado Public Radio over Trail Ridge Road. As we drove, Nathan interviewed me about my book, A Natural History of Trail Ridge Road: Rocky Mountain National Park’s Highway to the Sky. (A Natural History of Trail Ridge Road) Our trip started with a gobble when we saw wild…
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Alaska Sea Kayak Whale Watching
My husband and I had always wanted to go whale watching by kayak. But something always got in the way — kids, work, other catastrophes. This year, though, we were able to make it happen. We chose Spirit Walker Expeditions out of Gustavus, Alaska, near Juneau, for our big adventure. We arrived in Gustavus on…
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Dogs and Raccoons Battle to 1-1 Draw
My dogs got me up at 3:00 this morning to tell me that the raccoon we have visiting the backyard was back. I stumbled downstairs in a waking-up-from-deep-sleep daze to let them out. I always turn the light on before I let them out, to give the raccoon fair warning that it is time to…
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Book Launch at the Tattered Cover
I launched my book, A Natural History of Colorado: Rocky Mountain National Park’s Highway to the Sky at the Aspen Grove Tattered Cover in Littleton on Saturday. I had been hearing horror stories of how an author would give a book-signing, but nobody came, as so was a bit nervous. I shouldn’t have worried; friends…
Amy Law, Science Geek 