The shorelines that still breathe At first light the basin keeps its secrets lightly. Like a hundred others, a story lies at my feet asking to be read. Different chapters, yet the story and the language which carries it are the same. Parallel lines mark mountain slopes near and far. Those reveal shorelines long abandoned …
Category: Blog Tags: Bear River, Bonneville Flood, closed basin, Great Basin, Great Salt Lake, Ice Age, laquestrine sedimentation, Packrat midden, Pleistocene, pluvial lake, Red Rock Pass, Sevier Lake, Utah Lake, Woodrat
I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
Category: Blog Tags: Amberrat, bristlecone pine, Great Basin, House Range, Ice Age, Lake Bonneville, mammoth, packrat, Radiocarbon dating, sabertooth cat, time travel, tree-ring, woodrat midden
A morning lesson that wasn’t in the syllabus I once watched a lake breathe. It didn’t seem to be this century’s water; it carried a colder vocabulary—mist that became a shield of frost while simultaneously amplifying the call of coyotes from a distant hillside. If you stood where I stood and let the air settle, …
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A Look at Lake Bonneville: Utah’s Ancient Superlake
Posted: March 28, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
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The shorelines that still breathe At first light the basin keeps its secrets lightly. Like a hundred others, a story lies at my feet asking to be read. Different chapters, yet the story and the language which carries it are the same. Parallel lines mark mountain slopes near and far. Those reveal shorelines long abandoned …
Category: Blog Tags: Bear River, Bonneville Flood, closed basin, Great Basin, Great Salt Lake, Ice Age, laquestrine sedimentation, Packrat midden, Pleistocene, pluvial lake, Red Rock Pass, Sevier Lake, Utah Lake, Woodrat
What If You Could Time Travel to the Ice Age? Lessons from An Untimely Journey
Posted: February 23, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
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I’m a collector. Who can tell what will be important and what not? I don’t have to decide. A fossil-loaded rock, a branch with spiral grain, a snake’s abandoned skin, an old notebook that has become hard to read. I keep it all. In front of the house stands a tree born of seed collected …
Category: Blog Tags: Amberrat, bristlecone pine, Great Basin, House Range, Ice Age, Lake Bonneville, mammoth, packrat, Radiocarbon dating, sabertooth cat, time travel, tree-ring, woodrat midden
Paleo Science Meets Fiction: How An Untimely Journey Teaches Earth History
Posted: February 7, 2026 by Stan Kitchen
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A morning lesson that wasn’t in the syllabus I once watched a lake breathe. It didn’t seem to be this century’s water; it carried a colder vocabulary—mist that became a shield of frost while simultaneously amplifying the call of coyotes from a distant hillside. If you stood where I stood and let the air settle, …
Category: Blog Tags: experencial learning, faith and empiricism, five-needle pines, Great Basin, Ice Age, Pleistocene, Radiocarbon dating, rivers and time, time travel, woodrat midden