A call to action to combat administration as it tries to rescind ‘harm’ in Endangered Species Act analysis. It would totally guts the ESA by saying it is OK to destroy entire ecosystems that endangered species depend upon for their livelihood.
Take care: HPAI virus strains are now a part of ‘our new normal.’ We will need to adapt our agricultural practices to meet this new challenge. We can only hope that wild bird populations will build some type of immunity, or that the virus evolves to be less lethal to its host.
Christmas Bird Count reveals 75 species and 10,396 birds as it reminds us of ebbs and flows of our planet’s history
Don’t despair when climate change takes back seat in next administration; stay positive, be critical, active, kind
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.
This peculiar plant is a fitting posterchild for both the complexities of nature and the symbolism of the darkening hemisphere
Return trip to old stomping grounds at Wisconsin-Stevens Point reveals forest’s journey through time
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
LaRue-Pine Hills area at Shawnee National Forest is place to be to see up to 26 species of serpents
