Peregrine falcons who’d resorted to building their nest 41 floors up Rhodes Tower spread their wings and took their first flight lesson. Or at least one of them did. Five-week-old Swoop hit the sidewalk just east of the building, abruptly ending his first flying lesson and life. Fortunately, Swoop timed his death to coincide with [ more... ]

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Whoa, who said anything about Nature Deficit Disorder? Kids are getting all the nature they need by identifying city tress using iPhone applications. My Nature’s Tree Guide costs $6.99, but it will prove invaluable when trying to identify which berries are edible and which are poisonous before you can get a cell phone signal to [ more... ]

The Videograss crew’s latest is Bon Voyage, a snowboarding odyssey that’s part urban, part backcountry, a lot of hick, and plenty of antics backed up with serious riding skills. Enjoy.

Thanks Colin

After skiing across all of Greenland over 43 days while being dragged by kites, a duo of adventurers decided to try to break the single-day kite skiing record. The record had previously been held by a Norwegian, but on June 6 with some high-powered winds, the pair covered 370 miles in 24 hours. They broke [ more... ]

The battle some property owners in the west are waging against the resurgence of grey wolves has moved into chemical warfare. One dog was killed and two others sickened after they ate poison-laced sausage that had been left on the trail. Investigators think the sausage may have been left in an attempt to kill local [ more... ]

The only problem with hiking is that you have to walk so darn much. Good news for historical park lovers and haters of walking – the NPS is demoing Segway tours at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. You’ll have to pay $55 for the privilege of rolling over the graves of Civil War soldiers.

A man and woman hiking at Rainbow Lake campground near Boulder, Colorado were confronted by a rifle-toting man at about 6pm yesterday. He fired off one shot and then tied them to a tree. The man freed himself and made a break for it. The assailant released the woman without harming her (beyond tying her [ more... ]

The Coast Guard in the Gulf of Mexico took a break from cleaning up the oil disaster to scoop a Florida resident out of the sea. A man in a recreational boat spotted the floater and called in the Coast Guard, who pulled him off the toy and brought him to the hospital. The man, [ more... ]

A remote mountain village in New Zealand is for sale for about $1 million. You get the hotel, post office, pub and all of the houses. Forty-four people live there now, so you’ll have to put up with a bit of company, but you should win the mayoral race in a landslide. And if you [ more... ]