Feature Stories
 

"One cannot imagine the enormity of such an undertaking without viewing the scene of operations and it is well worth your while to take a walk over the steep incline, which is to become one of Colorado's greatest achievements in railroad engineering." Mount Morrison Cable Incline (Funicular) Railway

"What came next was a constant stream of red-tailed hawks, Cooper’s and sharp-shinned hawks and broad-winged hawks." Colorado's Hawk Highway

Like the "Dirty 30's," in 2014, tumbleweeds stack up along the barbed wire fence as dust storms blow across depleted agricultural fields with a Dust Bowl era truck parked off Highway 2, just south of Fowler in southeast Colorado. A tumbleweed appropriately sits in the drivers seat. Dust Bowl Days Search For Disappearing Lesser Prairie Chicken March - April, 2014

Long revered by Native Americans, the mountain lion has been hunted mercilessly by ranchers, early settlers and government agencies. Following clues, I search for my own friendly forest encounter.  Searching for the Wild - Tracking the Stealthy Mountain Lion

High wind driven fires wreak havoc on suburban neighborhoods in between Denver and Boulder, Colorado. Superior Suburban Fire

With their population under threat, numbers of the elusive and magnificent woodland caribou are in a steep decline. On The Trail of the Gray Ghost

Critically endangered, a pair of black and white indri lemurs sit side by side in the rainforest canopy in Andasibe - Mantidia National Park, Madagascar. Madagascar - An Endangered World

Muching on a willow branch, a large beaver enjoys the waters of Bear Creek. River of Life - Bear Creek, Colorado

Sitting and scratching, a female black bear enjoys the cool waters of the South Platte River in Waterton Canyon. Colorado’s South Platte River Valley

Three of five wild swift fox pups play and run by their den in the tall, green grass in the Pawnee National Grasslands on the north-eastern plains of Colorado. Colorado’s Pawnee National Grassland

Kicking up snow, a wild bull moose with large antlers walks across the snowy Round Prairie valley with the willow filled Soda Butte Creek in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Yellowstone Christmas

Newfoundland, a windswept island in the rough and unpredictable seas of the North Atlantic, known for its wealth in codfish has been a rocky outpost for settlements for thousands of years. During the last ice age, glaciers scraped away the island’s topsoil and deposited it 200 to 300 miles away on the ocean floor creating the rich fishing grounds of the Grand Banks. Likewise, generations of native peoples and Europeans as well as sea life have been attracted to the concentration and variety of fish in these waters. Learn More! - Read the PDF - (21MB)