View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The hoary marmot, a very large ground squirrel, gets it name from the frosted tips of its hair. While our well-known member of the marmot family, the...
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Favorite Focus, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive American Robin. Photo © Jessica Tschetter.
Focus Illustrated, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: After Priscilla Wenger’s lesson came out in March 2011, Ezra Morley used her lesson as a springboard. This is a reprint of his story from...
Treasures of the Snow: How I Learned to Photograph Them
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Editor’s Note: With the focus on snowflakes in this issue, I decided to go back Memory Lane and pick up the first time we wrote about snowflake...
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, January 2025
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup Our family loves this tasty soup! We usually double it for our large family. —Submitted by Mikayla Gray, Forest City, IA...
Winter Sowing
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Just after the winter solstice when the daylight is at its shortest, the weather at its coldest, and the gardens smooth and barren, seed catalogs begin to...
Study Guide Puzzles, January 2025
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End of the Trail, January 2025: Snowflake
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Split crystal dendrite. Photo © Don Komarechka.This snowflake has been a favorite ever since I first saw it in Don Komarechka’s book, Sky Crystals. I am...
Bird Nicknames
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Fun Facts About Gravity
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Gravity seems fairly straightforward and predictable. If you throw a ball up and then catch it, the speed at which it falls back into your hand will be...
Caption This Crane
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive "Can't you see I need help?!? Pull those quills, I tell ya!" Photo © Chapeau77|Dreamstime.com. We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph....
God Feeds The Birds!
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive I have often wondered how God feeds the birds when northern Pennsylvania is grasped firmly in the jaws of winter. I couldn’t really picture the birds...
Eridanus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eridanus, the River, is a large constellation that begins just west of Orion’s brightest star, Rigel. From Rigel, it stretches about 60° southwest before...
You Can Draw a Pronghorn Submissions
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Pictures and Poems, January 2025
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