Aurora Borealis and comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS harken back to before humans were on planet
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Nature Rambles: Seeds of hope help our prairies
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If you want to restore natural areas, you must depend on seeds. Vast prairies once covered the Illinois landscape. Bit by bit, those prairies were converted by agriculture. In a period of a couple of hundred years, our vast prairies were replaced by fields of crop seeds. If we hope to save the prairie for future generations, we must become familiar with the plants, their seeds, and how to propagate them.
Nature Rambles: Almost supernatural, the Ghost Pipe has a very unique life
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This peculiar plant is a fitting posterchild for both the complexities of nature and the symbolism of the darkening hemisphere
Nature Rambles: Nature of nostalgia reveals reality of our environment
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Return trip to old stomping grounds at Wisconsin-Stevens Point reveals forest’s journey through time
Nature Rambles: Seventeen-year, 13-year and annual cicadas, oh my
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As the dog days will be soon upon us, it’s a great time to tie up some loose ends from past Nature Rambles and look forward to what the future will bring us … like cicadas, bird counts and my red-headed neighbor
Nature Rambles: Snakes! On the road
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LaRue-Pine Hills area at Shawnee National Forest is place to be to see up to 26 species of serpents
Nature Rambles: NoMow this month of May
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The movement originated in the U.K. as a method of encouraging people to allow their native meadows to grow to provide habitat for their native species of birds and insects
Nature Rambles: Sure signs of spring sing songs on long walk in woods
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Follow me for a four-mile hike around Singing Woods Nature Preserve. glimpse of all of the varied habitats. It’s a long hike through moderately difficult hill trails … Let’s start our virtual hike together at the parking lot at the Tawny Oaks Field Station on Singing Woods Road …
Nature Rambles: Marsh Marigold springing up
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Actually a buttercup, this early bloomer a sure sign of transition in the delicate balance of nature
Nature Rambles: Chemicals trespass — some things are in the air
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Herbicides and pesticides like Dicamba and 2,4-D are cross-contaminating neighboring crops and surrounding plant life. And we do not know what long-term effect this will have on our landscape