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11 elusive winter wildlife sightings that prove national parks don’t sleep when the snow falls

Winter transforms the American wilderness into a landscape of stark beauty and profound silence. Snow blankets the ground, ...

Colorado’s color-changing wildlife face new risks as snow vanishes

Four of them live in Colorado: snowshoe hares, white-tailed ptarmigan, short-tailed weasels and long-tailed weasels.

How the timber rattlesnake became a symbol of American independence

American colonies declaring their independence from Great Britain. One of the most enduring symbols of those “times that try ...