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There is a large class of birds whose main field mark is that they have been standing ten feet from you for most of your life.
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The pronghorn has spent centuries being introduced incorrectly. American antelope. Prairie antelope.
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A yellow-bellied marmot left a local outdoor retailer Saturday with nearly $900 in technical equipment intended to improve its performance at sitting on rocks, climbing short distances, eating vegetation, and sleeping…
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There is a point in adult life when twenty-five dollars for a pair of socks stops sounding insane and starts sounding like preventive maintenance.
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Late winter in a wet forest looks mostly inactive. Snow. Mud. Dead leaves. Gray trunks. Then, in a saturated patch of ground, a strange purple hood pushes upward.
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A white-tailed deer brought evening traffic to a complete stop Tuesday after entering County Road 8 and appearing to begin a lengthy internal review of every possible direction it could take.
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Trail descriptions are written in a dialect of optimism. “Rolling terrain.” “Some exposure.” “Brief scramble.”
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The Palouse of eastern Washington and northern Idaho looks like someone applied a smoothing tool to farmland.
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Central Nebraska contains an enormous sand-dune field. Not ancient dunes buried under rock. Not little dunes along a river.
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A bull elk assumed temporary control of traffic operations Thursday after standing in the center of a two-lane park road and declining to delegate.