Snake Stories
A California trip yielded a fascinating and unusual landscape and fascinating and unusual stories.
Rewilding in India, and in our own backyards
A fascinating article, Second Nature by Dorothy Wickenden in The New Yorker, triggers a cascade of thinking about practical conservation wherever we live
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Lawn, lawn everywhere? No!
A realtor suggests lawn, missing the point entirely. Even after being told.
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Reading The Premonition: Michael Lewis knows how to tell a story
Absolutely riveting, The Premonition is the story about people trying to prevent needless deaths from a pandemic they saw coming.
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Jaws that bite
Stories about landing dangerous mako sharks bring to mind Alaska stories about the dangers of fishing for halibut
Squirrel? Rabbit? Marmot? Squirrel!
We’d see it briefly, then it would disappear for days. What was it? This unusual animal kept us guessing for weeks.
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Reading Walden in the time of Covid
Under duress, finally reading Walden
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Are we all post-naturalists now?
Conservation is democracy extended to the natural world
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Taxpayers are not The People
A softball question reveals a profound difference in who these two politicians think they are serving
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Butterflies and Ideas take flight
Thousands of monarch butterflies gather on a maple tree overnight
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