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May Flowers Grow!
With May quickly rolling away into summer, we look back at our favourite sights and smells of spring – flowers. Poppies, snapdragons, peonies and sweet peas… what’s your favourite? Snapdragons, peonies, sweet peas, lily of the valley For me, flowers … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Environment
Tagged bluebonnets, lily of the valley, peonies, snapdragons, sweet peas
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Where’s My Donkey Cart?
By Margaret Hedderman Backpacking is kind of counter intuitive to evolution when you think about it. Throughout the history of human beings, we have created and/or discovered methods of getting out of work. Like inventing animals and cars. So, when … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Margaret
Tagged backpacking, Canyonlands National Park, nature romanticism, Thoreau
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Political Monday
They might not be on the top of Congress’ agenda this week, but these issues are on the top of ours. Who else wants to see something done? Ag-Gag Bill Lies in Wait in Tennessee I wrote about the ongoing … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Environment, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged ag-gag, climate change, gun control, gun reform
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Poetry in Nature
Nature is everywhere and so is its poetry. National Poetry Month is coming to an end, but the celebration continues. And it won’t stop now, now that the sun is shining outside. ‘Afternoon on a Hill’ By Edna St. Vincent … Continue reading
The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Margaret Hedderman A trip to the Canyonlands. Falling shadows on the sandstone. Mandatory Darwin fence. Dusty snow on distant La Salles.
Art for the Animals
By Margaret Hedderman Behind the hot topic du jour lies the ever present threat to our endangered species. Whether it’s polar bears losing ground (or should I say ice?) or red-crowned cranes struggling to make a comeback after our wars, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art & Money, Environment, Fine Arts
Tagged Cicadas by Zel Stoltzfus, Contemplation by Pollyanna Pickering, Dance of the Cranes by Renso Tamse, Dining at Asbury Park by Tricia Zimic, Red-Crowned Cranes by Solveig Karina Nordwall, Snow Leopard by Renata Bruynzeel, The Druids by Virginie Baude
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Monsanto’s Carte Blanche
By Margaret Hedderman The full ecological and health effects of genetically modified foods (GMOs) has yet to be discovered. So it’s surprising (wait, not really) to learn that Congress recently slipped through a rider – dubbed the Monsanto Protection Act … Continue reading
A Year in the Life of That Tree
By Margaret Hedderman Mark Hirsch drove past That Tree everyday for years without ever snapping a photo of the old Bur Oak presiding over the corn fields. Then, one day on a whim, Hirsch took a photo of That Tree … Continue reading
Weekly Urchin Recap
By Margaret Hedderman Last night the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour came to Durango. In the five years since graduating from a film and television program, I believe I’ve sat in a movie theatre all of three times. As … Continue reading
Earning Your Turns
By Margaret Hedderman If every season was ski season, you wouldn’t see me complaining. I start wishing for opening day in November the day the lifts close in April. Obsessive is an overly kind word to describe me. That said, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Margaret
Tagged AIARE, avalanche report, avalanche safety, backcountry skiing, splitboarding
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