Articles by Jeff Mitton

Pink spring beauties are ephemerals that sustained the earliest Americans, and selection pressure may hold the clue to color variation.

Native Americans have been associated with bison in North America for more than 15,000 years.

That potent aroma prized by humans serves many functions for the plant.

Mormons used the plant to make a caffeine-free hot drink, and Native Americans used it to relieve congestion.

Aspen boletes build physical connections for mutualistic exchanges with quaking aspen.

The common wood nymph tastes with its feet and hears with its wings.

The beautiful male emerged in October, eager to mate but destined for disappointment because he emerged too late in the season, just an example of natural selection at work I received an invitation to photograph a black swallowtail butterfly that had just emerged. It would linger only a short while...

One puzzle leads to another question, as yet unanswered, about the cause.

Beavers may appear to be one of the most sedentary of species, living in a secure den or lodge in a pond with all of their food within a short waddle, but now, in Boulder Canyon and in Alaska, it is evident that they are on the move.

The wind that sculpts the stones also conspires with plants to transform a valley floor to a landscape of mounds with embedded plants.