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A hobby becomes a personality gradually. At first, someone goes hiking. Then they buy hiking shoes. Then a backpack.
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John Wesley Powell looked at the Green and Colorado river system in 1869 and decided to travel through its canyons in wooden boats.
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A promotional appearance by the University of Wisconsin’s costumed badger mascot was briefly suspended Saturday after an actual American badger emerged near a volunteer trail-cleanup event and began what witnesses…
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A camping mug is a drinking vessel with a recreational identity. A normal mug says: coffee. A camping mug says: coffee, but near a trailhead.
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The moose looks unfinished. The legs are too long. The torso is enormous. The head extends into an oversized nose.
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A bull moose feeding beside a park road Thursday asked approximately 40 visitors to “calm the fuck down” after a routine wildlife sighting expanded into what rangers described as “a self-sustaining roadside event.”
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Animals do not choose their common names. This should be remembered before criticizing them. Some biologist, hunter, settler, museum curator or exhausted committee looked at a perfectly good organism and produced a…
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The corpse flower spends years preparing to smell terrible. This is commitment. A mature plant stores energy underground in a corm that can weigh well over a hundred pounds.
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A Canada goose occupying three parking spaces near the south entrance expanded its territorial claim Tuesday to include the remainder of the parking lot, a landscaped median, and approximately 40 feet of sidewalk.
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Beds have spent centuries solving a straightforward engineering problem: provide a relatively flat surface.