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Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY

Cottonwood Creek Park from Dinosaur Trail, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011
Cottonwood Creek Park from Dinosaur Trail, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011

Cottonwood Campground is a Natrona County park with some shelters, a boat launch ramp, and some campsites with no services. There is a dramatic view of the reservoir from most sites.

Cottonwood Campground, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY

Nights I've camped here

Alex Can Spell

Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.

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