Local Conservation News Update:
The realitively uncommon to rare Bewick’s Wren was observed yesterday along the banks of the Raft River and EY Road.
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Why do people do this?
What is the motive? Is education a key to prevention? Can we ever build a nation of stewards? (graffiti on Camp Rock and Register Rock).
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Wildflower Season
Best wildflower season in a decade! These beauties are blooming lush at the Stines Creek Trailhead and Picnic area: American Bistort (Polygonum bistertoides), Golden Pea (Thermopsis rhombifolia, and Missouri Iris (Iris misssourienis)
Missouri Iris Season
View W-NW across the Big Cove and beyond to the Jim Sage Range, Take note that the first week of June ushers in blue meadows of Missouri Iris (Iris missouriensis).
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Packrat Paleobotany
Single-leaf pinyon pine is a surprisingly recent arrival at the Reserve and neighboring mountains. Our tour guide to this transition is the humble packrat (Neotoma). Before there were field botanists there were packrats. A packrat industriously gathers, hauls and piles snippets and bits of everything it finds within a few hundred feet of its, well,
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Ash-throated Flycatchers
Ash-throated Flycatchers have arrived to their northern-most breeding grounds in Idaho, which is to say City of Rocks and Cassia County’s pinyon-juniper woodlands. This one pictured here came within six feet of the photographer (no reccording was used). “Like” this Facebook site and follow along as we discover the arrivals and departures of the flora
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Wildflower Season (Long-leaf Phlox)
Finally, the long wet winter is paying dividends for one of the best wildflower blooms in a decade. Long-leaf Phlox (Phlox longifolia) pictured here.
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