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  • 'Scholarship, sainthood and simplicity'

    Frank C. Craighead Jr. is remembered as a famous grizzly bear authority, an environmentalist and a writer who lived consistently with his principles.

    by Angus M. Thuermer Jr., Nov 19, 2001

  • A local heroine

    Chemist, zoologist and former local pharmacist Theo Colborn visits Paonia with a TV crew to be filmed for an episode of "Superteachers: Wisdom for the Future," part of a Japanese public television series.

    by Ed Marston, Jul 30, 2001

  • The greening of the Nevada Test Site

    The Nevada Test Site - notorious for decades of nuclear bomb-testing - is now home to gentler science, including work on alternative energy and the greenhouse effect, and on cleaning up the site's radioactive contamination.

    by Jane Braxton Little, Jul 02, 2001

  • Colorado program axed

    The Colorado Natural Areas Program, which has been cataloging rare animal and plant habitat and geological and fossil-rich formations, may end this summer when its state funding dries up.

    by Kirsten Bovee, Mar 12, 2001

  • Mapping a vision

    A report from the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project inventories the mountain ecoregion of Colorado, northern New Mexico, and southern Wyoming.

    by Tim Sullivan, Oct 23, 2000

  • One big bighorn

    The National Bighorn Sheep Interpretive Center in Dubois, Wyo., will display the skull of the biggest bighorn ever known, a 15,000- to 22,000-year-old relic.

    by Beth Wohlberg, Jul 31, 2000

  • Can science heal the land?

    An air tour of west-central New Mexico flies over the region's "sky islands" - isolated mountain ranges rich in biological diversity that activists and scientists are trying to preserve.

    by Greg Hanscom, Apr 26, 1999

  • They left only footprints

    In Wyoming's Bighorn Basin, a flood reveals more than 2,000 dinosaur tracks in a gully.

    by Gabriel Ross, Oct 12, 1998

  • Defining a scientific movement

    "Biomimicry" by Janine M. Benyus, is an entertaining and enlightening tour of modern scientific research.

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 06, 1998

  • Wyoming Dinosaur Center

    The Wyoming Dinosaur Center southeast of Yellowstone National Park offers kids aged 8-13 a chance to assist scientists in digging dinosaur bones.

    by Staff, Jun 08, 1998
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