What is this? It looks like a tiny clam. But it’s in a temporary stock pond in shortgrass prairie. One little mollusk is lying quietly in the upper left portion of the video by 3-4 seconds in. Two or three others swim through. Where did these come from, and where did they go? This is …

Life in The Other Colorado. What’s out here? Flat but slightly rolling semi-arid shortgrass prairie land, populated with more beef cattle than people. I grew up back east, among rolling hills forested with a mix of evergreen and deciduous trees, thick with an understory of shrubbery that provided plenty of nesting for many varieties of …