One of the most beautiful pollinators bites the dust- One of the fun things I remember from childhood is capturing the black, yellow and white monarch butterfly caterpillars. They were not hard t...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2013/11/24/monarch-butterflies-are-just-about-gone/
Larkspur Strikes Again !!! Kinda’ puts the whole “Canadian wolves are a threat to our ‘livelihood'” argument into perspective: 30 cows die in S. Idaho after eating larkspur – Idaho Stat...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2010/08/04/low-larkspur-delphinium-bicolor/
This story gives more info on the dead botanist Erwin Frank Evert- Story from National Parks Traveler. By Kurt Repanshek Evert recently wrote Vascular Plants of the Greater Yellowstone Area. He k...
It’s that season (again) ! Bighead clover in Artemisia rigida sites (click for larger picture).
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2010/06/03/big-head-clover-trifolium-macrocephalum-ii/
Fritillaria pudica are among the first flowers to bloom in sagebrush country following the receding snow. Indigenous peoples used to eat their starchy bulbs. They’re blooming now ~ this photo w...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2009/04/20/yellowbells-fritillaria-pudica/
Mimulus patulus Occurence & Habitat Springs and seeps are unique habitats that occur where subterranean water emerges from an aquifer. In the semi-arid and arid west, these unique sources of wa...
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2009/03/17/stalk-leaved-monkeyflower-mimulus-patulus/