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This is was Hoppy. Also known as wolf 253 to those at Yellowstone National Park.
Photo by Steve Justad
Hoppy got his name because he had a limp ever since a fight he was in as a pup. Unfortunately, he’s no longer with us, since the Bush administration issued a rule permitting states to kill wolves affecting […]
Ok, this is funny. A report by Low Carbon Kid talks about how global warming is a hoax and gives “evidence” by showing that it’s not due to man, but rather “saprotrophic eubacteria living in the sediments of the continental shelves fringing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.” Global warming deniers jumped all over this, including […]
A couple of weeks back I had my 2-week post-project vacation. I spent the first week lounging around the house and playing computer games, and then spent the second week driving around Southern Utah to do some photography. In 5 days, I shot about 1400 photos (!) and it’s going to take some time to […]
A couple weeks ago I headed out to the “Ruby Marshes” as we call them, which are located in the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. I wanted to get some photos of some of the birds there before it got too late in the season.
I got some pretty good shots of a few different bird […]
This is the time of year when people that live around large areas of dry acreage start to get nervous. “Dry Lightning” has been a real problem this summer, and the West has had record numbers of brush fires.
We’ve had a few in our area, and a few nights back had one in the foothills […]
I did something unusual (for me at least) a couple weeks ago…I hosted a film party where I showed An Inconvenient Truth. I heard about the event through MoveOn.org, and decided to get involved. I didn’t think I’d hear from anybody since I live out in the middle of nowhere, and in a red state […]
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