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Welcome to the Utah Bioregional Reader: Getting to know the place you call home
Thirty years ago, Home! a Bioregional Reader published a widely distributed quiz that challenged people to test their knowledge about the place where they live. Bioregionalism is a …
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Humanizing nature: Nature is evolving before our very eyes
Like most Utah sportsmen growing up in the 1960s, I learned to be a classic Utah consumptive user of renewable resources. I became an avid hunter, fisherman and forager of wild foo …
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Spring ahead this fall: Now’s the time to transplant perennials and direct-sow flower and herb seeds
The summer of 2020 was a scorcher in the Salt Lake Valley. We melted a number of previous records, with the hottest August in 143 years. As the weather finally cools with the chang …
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Cultural riches: Adopt-A-Native-Elder rug show & sale goes digital on November 12, 2020
Linda Myers, a Utah native and Park City resident, has provided traditional Navajo elders in southern Utah and northern Arizona life-saving supplies for three decades. Her work beg …
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Urban Almanac August 2020: A monthly compendium of random wisdom from the natural world and beyond
1 Average temps today: high 92º, low 67º. Sunrise: 6:24am. Sunset: 8:42pm. On this date in 1944, Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry. 2 James Baldwin was born on this date in …
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Tattoos for bees: Making a point, one tatt at a time
Let most seven-year-olds loose in Utah’s Natural History Museum and they’re bound to gravitate toward the giant dinosaur fossils of the Past Worlds exhibit or the dazzling colors a …
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My rowdy friends: Paper wasps, yellow jackets and hornets are a gardener’s midsummer allies.
We all have that “one friend”—the one you think twice about taking anywhere, knowing they’re most likely going to say the wrong thing, get in a fight and possibly cause a little pr …
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Phony: Remembrances of phone systems past.
Felt deeply sad at the end of the month as I watched the clock grind to midnight. With one eye on the phone and one on the clock I was waiting for the flat line of my land line. Af …
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July 2020 Almanac: A monthly compendium of random wisdom for the natural world and beyond.
July 1 Average temperatures today: high 90º, low 64º. Sunrise: 6:10am. Sunset: 8:56pm. July 2 Garlic at a glance: Hardneck and softneck (Allium sativum) and elephant (Allium ampe …
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A novel approach to extending the gardening season: August 1st is the time to plant your fall garden!
I’m a huge fan of risky behavior in the garden. The edge is where the action is. Our seasonal weather in Utah is a wild ride to be sure, and you never quite know what the next week …
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