Monthly Archives: June 2021

Audio-Trip to Seattle part 3 We left Utah and the remnants of ancient Lake Bonneville behind and drove through the northern edge of the Basin and Range topography in southern Idaho. The short, north-south running mountain ranges and their flat, … Continue reading →

Audio-Trip to Seattle, Part 2 Last week (“Trip to Seattle: Part 1”) I wrote about our drive over the “hump” of the Rockies in southern Wyoming and the drop down into the western plains. All along the road we saw … Continue reading →

Audio – trip to Seattle, Part I (174) The Rocky Mountains are the backbone of North America. They dominate the western half of the continent and seem to form (on maps, anyway) a 3000 mile long wall separating the Great … Continue reading →

Audio of sea slugs and octopuses Sea slugs (Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda) are ocean-dwelling relatives of terrestrial snails and slugs that, like terrestrial slugs, have given up their protective shells in order to reduce metabolic costs (shells are expensive to … Continue reading →