Terry Thomas

As they say, a billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you are talking about real money. And real money, up to $10 billion, is what experts estimate

Forty years ago, the conversation about the Great Salt Lake was very different than it is today. The winter of 82-83 saw record snowfall of 800 inches, 400% of the

The Great Salt Lake is short on salty water, but just 550 miles away is an entire Pacific Ocean of the brine. Why not just ship some of that to Utah, and voila — problem solved.

Mormon CricketHighway 20 up Ashton Hill advances into Island Park through a steep climb, so flashing highway signs suggesting that the road could be slippery seem appropriate — in the winter.

In my garden, the beautiful flowers of the Sitka columbine, with their red sepals, long red spurs, yellow petals and multiple yellow stamens, have been fading over the past several weeks.

Whether it is the giant seed of the coco de mer or the dust-like seed of the jewel orchid or any size seed in between, each seed contains an embryo, a

The landowner scoffed at the idea that sage grouse could be in trouble in part because of fires, wild or intentionally set to improve the range for

About a month ago, we drove down to the Warm River Spring and former fish hatchery site in Island Park. This is a favorite place for us, and I have

While camped at Mud Lake Wildlife Refuge at the north shore boat ramp last week, we did a lot of birding. We saw great horned owls, nighthawks, loggerhead shrikes, a

The bull elk emerged from the wallow black with mud. So black, that I mistook him for a moose until I looked at the antlers.