More than 60,000 years ago, a giant volcano blew its top. A rain of cooling cinders formed a perfectly shaped cone over 1,000 feet high. Today, it’s known as Capulin Volcano. The rim of the crater is about a mile in circumference and the crater about 400 feet deep. Rising 1,300 feet above the plains [...]

California Condors are a dramatically endangered bird. In 1982, the condors were balanced on the brink of extinction, primarily due to lead poisoning from bullet fragments left behind during hunting season. A captive breeding program began in 1983 to save the species. As part of the program, California Condors were introduced to the ecosystem in [...]