by Mark Duggan | Oct 28, 2017
* NOTE: This story was commissioned by KUNC-FM and aired October 25, 2017.* Boulder, Colo. – Colorado is home to more than 19,000 black bears, all focused on consuming thousands of pounds of calories a day as they prepare for their long winter’s sleep. That’s...
by Mark Duggan | Oct 20, 2017
* NOTE: This story was commissioned by KUNC-FM and aired on October 16, 2017. * Boulder, Colo. – Colorado escaped significant wildfires this year, but millions of acres of forest in the state remain a powder keg, ripe for burning in the future. The next big fire...
by Mark Duggan | Nov 4, 2013
Tucson, Ariz. – A recipe for how to make an 8.4-meter telescope mirror: Ingredient: About 44,000 pounds of glass chunks. Instructions: Load glass chunks into 27-foot diameter mold. Place mold in giant spinning oven and set for five revolutions-per-minute. Cook...
by Mark Duggan | Sep 24, 2013
Longtime residents of Tucson, Arizona, remember the area as “prison camp.” From 1939 to 1973, it was the Catalina Federal Honor Camp. The inmates who built the Catalina Highway up Mount Lemmon were the original occupants. Conscientious objectors were also housed there...
by Mark Duggan | Jul 23, 2012
Picacho Pass, Ariz. – On April 15, 1862, two small groups of Union and Confederate soldiers fought a battle in central Arizona. The engagement left several Union troops dead, including the detachment’s commanding officer, and wounded several men on each side. It...
by Mark Duggan | Dec 27, 2011
Benson, Ariz. – About 40 miles southeast of Tucson, under the limestone rock of the Whetstone Mountains, lies a vast, living cave called Kartchner Caverns. It was discovered in 1974 by Gary Tenan and Randy Tufts, two amateur cavers from Tucson. A small cleft in...
