High on a windswept Nevada mountainside in the 1960s, a young researcher set out to read the history of climate written in ...
If you think you've ever messed up badly at your job, consider the case of Donald Rusk Currey. In 1964, the young graduate student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was studying the ...
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In 1964, graduate student Donald Rusk Currey asked for permission to cut down a tree growing on Wheeler Peak in Nevada's Great Basin National Park. Though there are different accounts on the ...