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 …
Actually a buttercup, this early bloomer a sure sign of transition in the delicate balance of nature
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
If left to its own devises, the old oak, which spans 10 generations, could easily outlive several more. Perhaps the fact that it is still standing says something about an improvement in our environmental ethics.
The final resting area of a historic pony truss bridge is a very interesting travel wayside: It now sits at the top of two separate watersheds. … Rain falling east of the bridge will wind its way to the Illinois River through Crow Creek south of Henry. Rain falling west will meander to the Illinois via the Spoon River near Havana.
This film captured the recent efforts by farmers are deciding to restore wetlands as part of a new way of managing their agricultural operations. Their restored wetlands are quickly becoming oasis for migratory birds, aquatic invertebrates, and amphibians
Visible barriers, reducing reflection can help save some of billions of birds crashing into windows
If there is ample rain to create fluddles, many of the shorebirds {sandpipers, plovers, and their kin) will drop into these fleeting pools to feed during the day.
As you wait for shooting stars, you notice other lights in the night sky. Planes fly overhead on their 30,000-foot flight path. Their blinking lights stand out against the pinpoints of starlight. Higher in the heavens, Starlink satellites reflect the sunlight from their orbit some 340 miles above the Earth surface
As evening progresses, you really notice just how different the north woods is from central Illinois. A summer day in central Illinois ends with a progression of insect songs starting with numerous species of cicadas giving way to katydid songs and tree crickets that will sing through the night. In the north woods, the darkness is silent.
