Dave Tucker
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| Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-17 | |
| Chuckanut’s Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-13 | |
| Chuckanut’s Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-06 | |
| Turns out ticks may be good for something | I don't know even one tick lover, but if there are any hanging out in the shadows, here's a reason to speak up in their defense: |
2013-08-19 | |
| Speaker series highlights animals, geology and history of the Mount Baker region | Speakers in the annual summer series at Heather Meadows will discuss a range of topics, from apex predators of the North Cascades to the geology and ecology of the Mount Baker wilderness. This weekend features a repeat of a popular talk, "Lions, No Tigers, and Bears. Oh My,"… |
2013-08-05 | |
| Mass of debris, water roars down Nooksack River's middle fork, endangers hikers | In the early hours of May 31, a slurry of mud, trees and boulders - one at least 14 feet across - roared down the middle fork of the Nooksack River. Called a debris flow by scientists, it would have felt and sounded like a freight train as it rumbled down the river valley for more than 3… |
2013-06-17 | |
| Giant Eocene bird was 'gentle herbivore', study finds | A team of researchers from Washington, US, examined tracks uncovered in a landslide in 2009. Previous investigations have suggested the giant bird was a carnivorous predator or scavenger. But the absence of raptor-like claws in the footprints supports the theory that Diatryma was… |
2012-11-26 | |
| Eocene Big Bird Not so Scary, After All | The reign of the dinosaurs came to a catastrophic end 66 million years ago. That’s the common trope, anyway – a holdover from before we recognized that at least one feathery lineage survived and proliferated after the K/Pg devastation. We still live in the Age of Dinosaurs – a 230 million year… |
2012-11-26 | |
| Mount Baker research center selling photo calendars to raise funds | 2012-11-19 | ||
| Photos a century apart document glacial changes on Mount Baker | About seven years ago, when mountain photographer John Scurlock first saw the 1912 photograph of the south side of Mount Baker, he was smitten with its historical value. When Dave Tucker, a geology research assistant at Western Washington University, saw the photograph, he was intrigued… |
2012-11-05 |