Bees: the Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable?
Charming though they are, are honey bees actually bad?
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Nature
Are They Like Ducks?
A New Yorker story recalls memories of muskox field work in Alaska
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That Was Then: Whaling
Recollections of a long ago camping trip that passed through a working whaling station.
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The Little Things That Run the World*
It’s time for a paradigm shift in gardening, towards using native plants that support the ecosystems around us.
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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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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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Butterflies and Ideas take flight
Thousands of monarch butterflies gather on a maple tree overnight
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