Jennifer M. Toews, M.A.

About 12 miles from the old mining town of Creede in Mineral County Colorado lies perhaps the state's most unique geologic formation:...

Saturday's wildflower adventure to Rogers Pass began at the Moffat Tunnel at 6:30 a.m. My hiking buddy and I had a long hike ahead of us...

On Friday several of us at the Botanic Gardens took the summer interns to Pawnee National Grasslands to visit the shortgrass steppe in...

Segment 2: South Platte Canyon to Little Scraggy Trailhead Distance: 11.5 miles Elevation gain: 2,482 feet Elevation loss: 753 feet...

Wednesday, May 23rd found me hiking at Deer Creek Canyon under a beautiful blue Colorado sky. I had the day off and needed to scout a...

Mountains in Texas? I was surprised too. My experience with Texas was centered around the summers I spent in the Panhandle on my...

I thru-hiked the Colorado Trail during the summer of 2015 and since then, I've thought about the Trail at least once per day. Images of...

I received a text from a friend the other day. There was a photo of a wildflower with the question: "What flower is this? On the...

Mesa Verde National Park features some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in all of North America. These cliff dwellings were once...

Here are a few photos taken in the shortgrass steppe of Colorado and the Sandhills of Nebraska.