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Mule Deer of the Rocky Mountains: A Life Written in Sage and Snow

In the rugged high country of the Rocky Mountains — from the snow-crusted drainages to wind-scoured alpine basins — a lean, ghostly predator roams. The coyote (Canis latrans) is at home here, from subalpine forests to alpine meadows and ridgelines above 7,000 feet. Though smaller than wolves, coyotes’ adaptability makes them one of the most successful carnivores in North America.
Frontlines

The Rocky Mountain Canid

In the rugged high country of the Rocky Mountains — from the snow-crusted drainages to wind-scoured alpine basins — a lean, ghostly predator roams. The coyote (Canis latrans) is at home here, from subalpine forests to alpine meadows and ridgelines above 7,000 feet. Though smaller than wolves, coyotes’ adaptability makes them one of the most successful carnivores in North America.
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Nebraska’s Badland Wonder: Toadstool Geologic Park & Campground 

Toadstool Geologic Park and Campground in northwestern Nebraska is known for its otherworldly badlands, fossil beds, and striking rock formations shaped like giant stone mushrooms. Often called “Nebraska’s Badlands,” the park showcases millions of years of geologic history, with exposed layers that reveal ancient ecosystems and preserved tracks of prehistoric animals. Visitors can hike scenic trails that wind through eroded clay and sandstone, explore fossil sites, and camp under the wide-open skies of the Oglala National Grassland.
Destinations

Fort Robinson: Where the Plains Remember 

Fort Robinson is no longer a garrison but Nebraska’s largest state park, and one of the finest preserved frontier military posts in America. The park system has carefully balanced commemoration with recreation: visitors can step into barracks where soldiers once drilled, then mount up for a horseback ride through the same buttes that once hid Lakota warriors. It’s a layered place—part battlefield, part memorial, part vacation retreat. And it remains one of the most compelling destinations in the state for anyone who wants to understand both Nebraska’s story and the wider saga of the American West.
New Journeys

Dancing with Light: The Art of Intentional Camera Movement

In the world of photography—where sharpness and precision are often prized above all else—there exists a rebellious technique that throws convention to the wind. Intentional Camera Movement, or ICM, is an approach that embraces blur, motion, and abstraction, transforming everyday scenes into painterly works of art. Instead of freezing a moment in time, ICM captures the feeling of a moment—fluid, unpredictable, and alive.
Travel

Devils Tower, Wyoming: The Stone Sentinel of the Plains 

Archaeologists have traced the act of piercing back to at least 2500 BCE. Ancient Sumerians buried their dead with earrings. Egyptian royalty pierced their ears as status symbols — King Tutankhamun’s mummified remains still display stretched lobes. In South America, the Maya and Aztecs pierced their septums and tongues, offering blood in rituals that symbolized communication with the gods.
Culture

Piercing the Veil: The Evolution of Body Modification

Archaeologists have traced the act of piercing back to at least 2500 BCE. Ancient Sumerians buried their dead with earrings. Egyptian royalty pierced their ears as status symbols — King Tutankhamun’s mummified remains still display stretched lobes. In South America, the Maya and Aztecs pierced their septums and tongues, offering blood in rituals that symbolized communication with the gods.
Culture

Behind the Scam: Understanding and Fighting Elder Financial Abuse

When dementia or cognitive decline is involved—the victim isn’t acting out of foolishness. They’re being subjected to targeted psychological tactics designed to override reason and create obedience. Scammers have mastered the art of conditioning their victims to respond instantly to threats and to ignore anyone who tells them otherwise.
New Journeys

Haystack Rock: Oregon’s Timeless Coastal Sentinel 

The first thing you notice when you arrive in Cannon Beach isn’t the scent of salt air or the crash of the surf—it’s the towering silhouette of Haystack Rock, rising 235 feet from the Pacific like a fortress of stone. As the tide retreats, the base reveals itself, ringed by tidepools glittering with anemones and starfish. Seabirds wheel above, their cries mixing with the wind, and for a moment, it feels as if time has stopped.
Culture

The Mentally Forgotten: Homelessness & the Invisible

Scottsbluff, Nebraska — a small town of about 14,000 people. It’s the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, rumors travel fast, and most work revolves around agriculture. There’s little to do beyond going to church on Sunday, finding the one club in the area, visiting your favorite bar — of which there are many, eight or more — and meeting up with friends or strangers to listen to country music while loud-mouthed cowboys talk about calving season or the latest hailstorm that wrecked their crops. In short, it’s nowhere special unless you like those kinds of things.
Destinations

Jeep Therapy: The Open Road Stress Reset 

On any given summer evening, when the sun drops low and the heat finally starts to fade, you’ll spot them: Jeeps with the doors off, the roof stashed in a garage somewhere, and a couple of friends rolling slowly through town or down some country dirt road. The music drifts, the air rushes, and the world feels lighter for a while. We call it jeep-therapy.

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Science

Mule Deer of the Rocky Mountains: A Life Written in Sage and Snow

In the rugged high country of the Rocky Mountains — from the snow-crusted drainages to wind-scoured alpine basins — a lean, ghostly predator roams. The coyote (Canis latrans) is at home here, from subalpine forests to alpine meadows and ridgelines above 7,000 feet. Though smaller than wolves, coyotes’ adaptability makes them one of the most successful carnivores in North America.
Frontlines

The Rocky Mountain Canid

In the rugged high country of the Rocky Mountains — from the snow-crusted drainages to wind-scoured alpine basins — a lean, ghostly predator roams. The coyote (Canis latrans) is at home here, from subalpine forests to alpine meadows and ridgelines above 7,000 feet. Though smaller than wolves, coyotes’ adaptability makes them one of the most successful carnivores in North America.
Discovery

Ancient Travels of Colorado’s Sandhill Cranes

Sandhill cranes are as old as the story of migration itself. Tall, gray-bodied, crimson-capped, they move with a purpose that has outlasted ice, drought, and the rise of cities...
Science

Lindenmeier: Into Folsom Time

The Lindenmeier Site in northern Colorado is one of North America’s most important Paleoindian archaeology discoveries. Here, Ice Age hunters of the Folsom culture crafted fluted spear points, sewed hides with bone needles, and hunted Bison antiquus on the windswept plains long before history was written. The site’s dramatic evidence — a Folsom point embedded in bone — challenged early Smithsonian archaeology skepticism and helped prove humans lived in prehistoric Colorado during the Pleistocene. Today, visitors to Soapstone Prairie Natural Area north of Fort Collins can walk the same open shortgrass prairie where these early people once camped and hunted.

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