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On-Line Essays and Articles

HOME PAGE -- "CREEPING" with UTAH NATURE STUDY SOCIETY

Information About the UNSS Pages

Our Founders -- Stan and Dodie Mulaik

Stanley B. Mulaik

Dorothea D. Mulaik

"Earth Day" essays by Stan Mulaik

"The Best of Nature"

"Share the Earth"

Maxine Hullinger -- A Special Lady

Nature Notes -- Thoughts and Observations: Back Yards and Vacant Lots; Field Trips Are Fun; Utah Marshes; A Winter Message; Our Wyoming Vacation; A Trip Eastward; Unique Utah; A Gift of Awareness; My Favorite Season; "Varmints"; Some Favorite Quotations

Birds and Bees, Flowers and Trees: "Speck"; "Frisky"; "Child of the Earth"; Puffballs; Earthworms and Healthy Lawns; The Excavator Wasp; The Most Successful Plant?; Christmas Greens: Hollies Conifers; Spring Wildflowers -- (see expanded list below); "Development"; Mountain Flowers; Birthstones -- (see expanded list below); Winter Birds In Your Garden

Projects and Activities to Try: Feeding the Birds in Winter; Snow and Snowflakes; Stars and Constellations; Nature's Christmas Tree

Schedule of Recent UNSS Activities

Reports of Some Past Outings and Events

1966 Trip to the Sand Dunes

1973 Trip to the Sand Dunes

1976 Trip to the Sand Dunes

Trip to Hogle Zoo

Winter Walk in City Creek Canyon

An Excursion to Hardware Ranch

Trip to Topaz Mountain

Lytle Ranch Nature Preserve

Raft River Mountains and City of Rocks

Albion Basin in 1978

Albion Basin in 1986

Albion Basin Plant Checklist (Handout -- 1987)

Albion Basin in 1997

Albion Basin in 1999 -- With Colored Photographs

Daisies and Asters

False Hellebore

Yellow Monkey Flower

King Flax (Yellow)

Trees of the Albion Basin Area

Albion Basin Flowers and Other Plants

Small Mammals of the High Country

Some Birds of Utah Mountains -- (Coming Soon)

Spring Wildflowers: Wild Phlox; Storks Bill; Pink Lady Slipper; Sweet Vetch; Death Camas; Evening Primrose; Stickseed; Forget-Me-Not; Arrowleaf Balsamroot; Yarrow; Thistle; Indian Parsnip or "Longpipes"; Mule Ears; Beckwith's Astragalus; Sego Lily; Dog Tooth Violet; Fritillary; Spring Beauty; Scarlet Globemallow; Hound's Tongue

Birthstones: January -- Garnet; February -- Amethyst; March -- Aquamarine / Bloodstone; April -- Diamond; May -- Emerald; June -- Alexandrite / Pearl / Moonstone; July -- Ruby; August -- Peridot / Sardonyx; September -- Sapphire; October -- Opal / Pink Tourmaline; November -- Topaz / Citrine Quartz; December -- Turquoise

Winter Birds in Your Garden: Bohemian Waxwing; Juncos; Gray-Headed Junco; Black-Capped Chickadee; Black-Headed Grosbeak; Rufous-Sided Towhee; Scrub Jay; White-Breasted Nuthatch; Hairy Woodpecker; Downy Woodpecker; Flicker; Brown Creeper

Utah Marshes -- Wetlands In a Desert State

Journal Entries of an Early Explorer (1849/50)

Farmington Bay In Late Fall

Farmington Bay In the Spring

Anything Can Happen In a Marsh

Viva la Brine Flies ??

Why Value This Marsh?

Plants of the Marshes

Oldsquaw At Farmington Bay

Surface-Feeding Ducks

Tree Ducks (Whistling Ducks)

Stiff-Tailed Ducks

List of Common Utah Marsh Birds

Great Blue Heron

Spotted Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper

Western Sandpiper

American Avocet

Black-Necked Stilt

Long-Billed Marsh Wren

Yellow-Headed Blackbird

Red-Winged Blackbird

Coming Soon --- Some Mammals of Utah: Rodents and Their Kin; Predators of Arid Utah Areas