Pet Dish
There's not enough mainstream lizard action out there -- with the very
likely exception of the Geico gecko. No off-leash Komodo dragon parks;
no iguana reality shows. Considering that dogs can't regenerate lost
limbs and cats don't change colors in response to the environment, it
seems lizards deserve a little more time in the public eye. And that's
exactly what they're getting -- many millions of years later -- at the Burke Museum on the University of Washington campus.
By Lisa Wogan | January 22, 2008
DEMING -- Standing in a hard, cold rain, it's hard to envision that at some point millions of years closer to the dawn of time, it was warm enough for palm trees to grow here.
But as certain as the sunrise, we're looking at a giant fossil of a palm leaf in a dirt bank in the forest, and holding smaller specimens of fern fronds and other flora.
By Greg Johnston | April 28, 2005
Take a Walk
Location: Bellingham.
Length: Two miles round trip.
Level of difficulty: Flat to moderately steep, dirt/gravel trail, muddy/slippery after rains.
Setting: This varied trail begins near the entrance to the parking lot (an abandoned gravel pit), and leads south through a lush grove of alders and maples to join the Interurban Trail, a rails-to-trails conversion of the old Mount Vernon-Bellingham Interurban Railway.
By Cathy McDonald | August 22, 2002
