August 7, 2008
Please check out this article on Bob The Wandering Lepidopterist from High Country News:
http://www.hcn.org/issues/40.14/the-wandering-lepidopterist
Bob spies a butterfly while hiking in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains.
Photo by Scott Black.
Bob gets up close and personal with an Uncompahgre Fritillary in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains.
Photo by Scott Black.
Uncompahgre Fritillary basks on a habitat boundary marker, San Juan Mountains, Colorado.
Photo by Scott Black.
Gillett’s Checkerspot on a nectar plant, Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Gothic, Colorado.
Photo by Scott Black.
Bob and Thea Pyle, with Marsha the butterfly net and Bob’s car Powdermilk, Gray’s River, WA.
Photo by Lynn Herring.
High Creek Fen, South Park, Colorado. Photo by Scott Black.
December 15th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Dear Bob,
With the Xerces new website I am now able to receive your communications. I smiled when I saw the Inn at Crested Butte. Like yourself I was at the RockY Mt Biological station as an undergrad with my professor Timothy Prout and his friend Baker of Chicago. Prout loved to fish and one day another student and I borrowed his equipment to fish. More difficult than expected–too many branches became adorned with expensive lures. The Inn at Crested Butte was not in existence then. We tried to bring a bottle of Wine to dinner at the Bakers. Only local extra fortified wine for winos was available in that town of old miners and whores. Times have changed. I too remember the Lab with great fondness. Emelen and his students always with field mice and voles in their pockets. Two years or so ago I heard Inoyo give a lecture at U of O about climate change . The lab has amazing records of last snow , first flowers, first butterfly. Their evidence was fantastic.
I am enjoying your comments .Trip is obviously successful and a great way to re-meet all the lepidopterists of America. Looking forward to having you lecture to us in Eugene when data is complete and you are ready.Warmly–Ellie Ryan Eugene NABA