Published in Seattle Times: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/springtime-is-for-salamanders-and-journeys-of-discovery/ Warming spring days cause many Northwesterners to reach for binoculars and look up for birds. My inclination is to look down. It’s time to find salamanders, encounters that could lead you to adventures, a career, and your tribe. Sure – bird watching is popular. That’s because it’s easy. Birds flit, […]
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There was something, however, in the appearance of this machine which caused me to regard it more attentively. While I gazed directly upward at it (for its position was immediately over my own) I fancied that I saw it in motion. In an instant afterward the fancy was confirmed. Its sweep was brief, and of
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Es muy interesante sus metas e intereses con el almiqui (It is quite interesting your goals and interest in the (Cuban) solenodon.). —- Dr. Giraldo Alayon Garcia, Museo Nacional de Historica, La Habana, Cuba. This is a curious creature. It is a nocturnal, fossorial, venomous, insectivorous mammal. Yes – venomous. It is one of only a
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Eighty feet above me, fingers and toes adhering to thin edges on the vertical rock face, Dick approached the summit of the 9,415 ft. tall Mt. Stuart. The reputation of the north ridge as a stellar climbing objective was clear as we ascended the sharp ridge pinched between two massive glaciers. The foot of the
SALAMANDER, n. Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water. The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce. 1911.
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