by Don McGowan | Jan 30, 2021 | January 2021, Uncategorized
Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge boasts the only undeveloped salt pond on the Rhode Island Coast. A “salt pond” is the local folks term for a coastal lagoon, a small inclosed body of saline water. In addition to the salt pond, there is a diminuitive...
by Don McGowan | Jan 23, 2021 | January 2021, Uncategorized
Seen from around the edge of Freya Castle, the Unkar Creek watershed shines in the late afternoon light. A thousand years ago a Pueblo People spent their winters along the delta of Unkar Creek’s confluence with the great Colorado and their summers along the...
by Don McGowan | Jan 16, 2021 | January 2021
Ocean Drive is the iconic route for those who wish to see the great geologic features of Acadia National Park. As much as I tend to eschew icons, I must admit that the Park Loop Road, as it is known, is certainly worth some of your time. As the visitor literature is...
by Don McGowan | Jan 8, 2021 | January 2021
East of the eastern entrance of Capitol Reef National Park Utah Highway 24 passes through an area of low Bentonite hills beyond which lies the sandstone uplift of the Caineville Reef. Not nearly as spectacular as its tortured and rocky sibling to the west, the...
by Don McGowan | Jan 2, 2021 | January 2021, Uncategorized
As the autumn in the Southern Appalachians began to shed its foliage and the temperature ranges between day and night began to stretch themselves toward extremes, the valleys of Pisgah National Forest in Transylvania County found themselves regularly filled with tidal...
