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Ecology students present spring seminar series

This spring, the MSU Department of Ecology will be holding a weekly seminar series stretching from Thursday, Feb. 25 to Thursday, April 22. The series is part of BIOE 555, a graduate ecology class. I was a fly-on-the-virtual-wall for the two stellar presentations from Sean Hoy-

Winter's arrival slows fall climbing

Though the fall season this year in Bozeman has been particularly great for climbers with cool temperatures and low humidity, winter is right around the corner, coating local areas in snow and ice and pushing crowds back into climbing gyms. Unfortunately, under the current circumstances of COVID-19, both the

Only You Can Prevent Wildfires

Only You Can Prevent Wildfires

Wildfires have always been a part of the landscape in the American West. Fire’s violent ability to destroy also ensures the health and regenerative ability of the forests and grasslands in which we recreate. Its impact completes an important step of the nitrogen cycle in the soil and helps

Nature talks

Nature talks

The other day I was walking to campus along College Street and decided to cut through Wally Byam park. Along the sidewalk, MSU has planted a variety of different flowers, including petunias and pansies. As I walked past the short stretch of garden, the soft, sweet smell of these flowers

Professor scores spores award

Dr. Cathy Cripps of MSU’s Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology was awarded the prestigious W.H. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching for her work in mycology at the collegiate level in July. Mycology is the scientific study of fungi, a field that has interested Cripps ever

AstroWeekly: A shared planet

From the depths of the North Pacific Ocean, a 170,000-kilogram blue whale rises through a swarm of krill on its way to break the surface. In eastern Africa, giraffes wander across the rolling grasslands of the savanna with no particular destination. Meanwhile, herds of wild yak’s graze

Astro Weekly: A Special Shoutout to Trees

A few hundred years before the ancient Egyptians constructed the Pyramids of Giza, a seed germinated in the soil of western North America. Today, nearly 5,000 years later, that seed lives on as Methuselah—the current oldest tree on Earth. This tree came into existence when the world population