Published July 5, 2015 Madagascar labradorite This is from Madagascar. This mineral is iridescent. It has its own mineral term named for the shimmering blues and greens – […]
Published September 13, 2015 Looking Glass Falls This falls is named for nearby Looking Glass Rock, a massive monolith almost 4000 feet tall named for the way its granite […]
Published November 3, 2015 Wild and Woolly Winter In 1948 Dr. Curran, then curator of insects at New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, began a tradition of traveling […]
Published June 4, 2016 Deer Diner At just under a mile high, Hurricane Ridge experiences both the strong winds it is named for and the possibility of […]