September 20, 2005

Arrowheads...who would have guessed?

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What do rural tweakers ("speed freaks," to an earlier generation) do with their time? Hunt arrowheads, at least in Arkansas . Via ...
September 18, 2005

Rags over the River

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The Poet contacted me a while back, asking me to take The VIsiting Poet flyfishing. All right, I said, and let's ask Recent Graduate as ...
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September 13, 2005

On the Mushroom Trail

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A recreational mushroom hunter blunders into an encounter with the real pros in this report . “We haven’t actually learned how to work,” p...
September 11, 2005

Animism, Disney, and Morels

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It started when someone passed on a quote from an article in the August 2005 issue of Vanity Fair about Disneyland: I thought about ever...
September 08, 2005

What's that Bug?

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Got a digital photograph of an insect or spider that you cannot identify? Send it to this site --but check their photo archives first. And i...

What about the dogs (cats, hamsters, etc.)?

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I cannot agree with uber-blogger Glenn Reynolds who said , " I think you should leave the dogs behind " when evacuating New Orlea...
September 05, 2005

The Literary High Plains

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Setting out for eastern Nebraska, Boulder blogger Richard Martin mentally organizes a literary tour of the High Plains . I’ll be heading out...
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September 04, 2005

Disco, disco toad

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Hawaiian cane toads are not a problem here, but they are one in northern Australia, as I learned from the hilarious but sobering documentary...
September 01, 2005

Hello From Marc Boone

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I'm a CSU-Pueblo student in Chas. Clifton's NatureWriting class and I'm trying out this software for the first time. I'll be...

Welcome, New Nature-Bloggers

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A new group of bloggers is joining this blog: seven members of my fall-semester nature-writing class: Sara Kelly, Rhonda Turner, Valerie Ger...
August 31, 2005

No, Blame Bush for Katrina

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A political scion shows his lack of historical knowledge . Perhaps he could blame the flood of 1978 on Jimmy Carter. Speaking of which, th...
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Blame the French for Katrina

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A writer for the Los Angeles Times works the blame-the-French angle into coverage of Hurricane Katrina . (Registration required.) In 1718,...
August 30, 2005

Whack 'em and stack 'em

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The Idaho Statesman reviews a Ted Nugent concert . (Via The Stain ). • The celebration of violence was disturbing. The quintessential blood...

The God and Nature Blame Game

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Terry Mattingly of GetReligion [as in, "the press just does not get religion"] summarizes coverage of religious responses to Hurri...
August 28, 2005

"Uninhabitable for weeks"

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The Mason Gulch Fire was bad enough here, but Brendan Loy is right, this National Weather Service announcement about Hurricane Katrina is...