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: NoMow this month of May
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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
Nature Rambles: Ancient branches swirl into our past and future
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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.
Nature Rambles: The view from the hill flows on for forever
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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.
Fluddle follow: Farmers finding productive uses for wetlands
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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
Nature Rambles: Help fight bird mortality through the looking glass
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Visible barriers, reducing reflection can help save some of billions of birds crashing into windows
Nature Rambles: ‘Fluddle Stompers’ flock to unique puddle ponds
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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.
Nature Rambles: There’s more than meteors lighting up our night sky
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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