OGDEN NATURE CENTER

Wild Wednesdays: 3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. today. "Endangered in Utah". With the help of Des Ta Te, our bald eagle and Laser, our desert tortoise, discover what it means to be an endangered species. Learn what causes animals and plants to become endangered and go extinct and what you can do to help.

OGDEN NATURE CENTER

JACKSON, Wyo. -- Officials with the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort say a ski patroller was buried by an avalanche.

All parts of a bird except the distinctive bobbing tail were hidden behind a light fixture atop a pole as I pulled into the Riverdale Target parking lot. That meant the smallest falcon in North America, an American kestrel, had just landed on the fixture and was regaining its balance post-flight.