10th Annual Burning Beetle
Custer, S.D. – The march of flaming torches set out from the parking lot of Custer Jr./Sr. High School around 5:30pm, last night. Snaking...
Links to Publications from 2022
Quick! Before the calendar catches up! Click & scroll through these two publications from the tail end of this year. This first one was...
Earthworm Hibernation + You
On a blustery, midwinter day do you ever wonder where the earthworms are? I do. Naturally, winter behaviors vary across species but when...
Camera Allergy
It's the doing of the thing that makes for good work; the sharing of it that makes for good times. Taking photos of a thing can affect...
Rockosophical Reads
If you enjoy the occasional piece of fiction, here are two novels for your stack. This pair of good reads include pocket rocking...
Shriking Fossils
A blizzard laid crystal white in every direction from your hotel that first week in South Dakota. SoDak, that's what the locals call it....
All Lined Up
The sun took its time on the rise that day. The pilot was saying, "Thirty years I been doing this and I don't think I've ever seen that...
Disorder, be Dammed!
We are humane creatures in a highly modified environment with all the social, physical, and mental lags in adaptions that precipitate...
Handling Wildlifers
There are perks to being a field biologist, perks to paying attention. Like seeing a nesting pair of long-billed curlews! Of course, it...
Pocket Rocks: Lily
My family are rock pickers. Mom's a century farm kid, Stearns County, “the land of rocks & cows" where fields sprout rocks before they...
