2020 Series
Becoming a Naturalist: Stories of Life, Living, and Learning
Robert Frost’s poem challenged us to contemplate taking this road or that road, but he did not cover another option. For a naturalist life is about wandering the pathless ground between those two roads, which poses a rhetorical question: how does one become a naturalist instead of a butcher, baker, or candlestick maker? The answer arrives not as a fill-in-the-blank but as a collage of events and experiences that coalesce to form a guiding philosophy. Each month this year, “Becoming a Naturalist” will share personal stories about life, living, and learning, stories that might revive storied memories of your own.
January 6 & 7 Another Beauty of Bluebirds
February 4 & 19 Mary Poppins and the Bullfrogs
March 3 & 4 Death on a Mudflat
April 1 & 7 Close Encounters: Wildlife
May 5 & 6 Close Encounters: People
June 2 & 3 The Redwing That will Fly Forever
July 1 & 7 Tracking Moose through Colorado
August 4 & 5 Staying Busy When You Can’t Do Anything
September 1 & 2 An Elk Tour Gone Wrong
October 6 & 7 A Different Kind of Lockdown
November 3 & 4 How Not to Run a Zoo
December 1 & 2 A Higher Cult of Mortals
