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A Universal Task
The fragrant scent of toasted late summer vegetation swam lazily through the air of where I collected the my little batch of crab apples. Hundreds of dusted garnets laden down the old tree by the trailside. They hung above close above my head as I bobbed, stooped, checked, and tossed each plump little morsel either…
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Native Prunus
Cherry this, cherry that, what’s with your cherry spat? Just on the south side of Denver runs Cherry Creek. As a transplant, my first experience with this sliver of the old world, was zipping along the paved Cherry Creek Trail as my daily commute. I was relatively ignorant of what plants grew in and around…
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Ancient Enemy
Marks of the Ancient Enemy, Capitol Reef National Park Approximately 2,000 years ago, Fremont and Ancestral Puebloan people began to feats of agriculture of corn, beans, squash, grains, and trees incorporating them into their hunter-gatherer lifestyles. As they did, they left art and artifacts along the cliffs throughout much of Utah, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada. Petroglyph panels…
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