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Tuesday, September 29, 2026

The Monthly Orchid—a Letter to the Earth

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… its broad extremity is folded over and backwards in a peculiar manner, so as to form a sort of shoe ... Hence arises the English name of L...
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Sunday, September 20, 2026

Mapping Lake Lahontan—with contour lines & color

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Landscapes past and present emerge from a surveyor's lines, as if by magic. In 1881, Israel Cook Russell set out to map a lake that had ...
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Monday, August 31, 2026

The Monthly Orchid: What do you get when you cross a Coralroot & a wasp?

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Answer: Capsules filled with seeds! (Striped Coralroot, Awinch1001 ) Welcome back to the The Monthly Orchid , a series about South Dakota...
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Friday, August 14, 2026

Back to Lake Lahontan, with a guy who knows it well

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Lake Lahontan (pale gray) is "a large lake which flooded a number of the valleys of northwestern Nevada at a very recent geological dat...
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