Jeff Mitton
Just as we have learned that the cost of freedom is constant vigilance, we must accept the notion that the lands set aside for forever must continually be guarded.
Biologists initially thought the distribution of Fremont’s buckwheat was determined by a requirement for gypsum in the surface soils.
Amanita species can be described as edible, inedible, poisonous, deadly poisonous, and psychoactive.
Monarch butterflies gained access to milkweeds after they evolved the metabolic trick of absorbing the cardiac glycosides by sequestering them in fat bodies.
Mountain cicadas, Okanagana bella, are also found locally, and it is the only cicada common in the mountains.
A mating wheel allows a precise comparison of the colors and patterns of males and femalesThe little marsh swarmed with insects. Tiny moths popped up from the grass, darted a short distance and then disappeared back into the grass. Small wood nymph
Because billions of birds migrate in North America, this asynchrony of needs and availability of resources could become a widespread problem.
Wild or free roaming burros and horses are protected by Federal Law as "living symbols of the historic and pioneer spirit of the West.”A few miles south of the historic swinging bridge crossing the San Rafael River, a group of 10 burrows grazed on a
Social systems of great blue herons vary dramatically, from solitary nests to large heronries, and some heronries include nests of great egrets and cattle egrets.
The sharing of vigilance and alarms by golden-mantled ground squirrels and yellow-bellied marmots is not unique.