Orchid hunting conjures images from the 1800s – explorers in mud-spattered khaki, traipsing through impenetrable jungle, overloaded with equipment: jars, bottles, bags and boxes, a gun (to shoot down ...
Orchid hunter Mark Wapstra has spent his whole life chasing and documenting Tasmanian native orchids. The environmental scientist grew up searching for orchids with his parents and twin brother, and ...
April Charlton [email protected] Mar 19, 2017 Mar 19, 2017 Updated Mar 29, 2017 Longtime Five Cities Orchid Society member Bob Asbell's love affair with orchids started as a teenager ...
Welcome to another summer season of In Bloom! In this column we’ll follow the wildflowers as they bloom throughout the Roaring Fork Valley and surrounding mountains. Every wildflower, whether showy or ...
Being mauled by a jaguar or robbed at knifepoint might seem like risks fit for only the bravest of world travelers (or Indiana Jones). But those were just two of the many hazards that came with orchid ...
Since 2001, a group of intrepid plant hunters, led by local orchid enthusiasts Lorne and Joan Heshka, make their annual trek to explore the flora of Churchill. For the first leg of the journey, they ...
IN THE FAKAHATCHEE STRAND | We're barely out of our cars before the chorus starts: "I just want to see a ghost orchid!" The ghost orchid is among the world's rarest flowers, the star of the popular ...
THE ORCHID HUNTERS—Norman MacDonald—Farrar & Rinehart ($2.75). SALWEEN — Ronald Kaulback —Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). MY ESKIMO LIFE—Paul-Emile Victor —Simon & Schuster ($3). A GUIDE TO ALASKA—Merle ...
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This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work. Orchid hunting conjures images from the 1800s – ...
MY path led down the side of the lonely Barrack, as the coffin-shaped hill had been named. There I had been exploring a little mountain stream, which I had fondly and mistakenly hoped might prove to ...