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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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