Garden Revolution
We can make a real difference – planting keystone native plants in our gardens restores insect and bird life quickly.
Nature
Green Worms Are Bad This Year
We must endure the presence of caterpillars if we wish to be acquainted with functioning ecosystems
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Bees: the Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable?
Charming though they are, are honey bees actually bad?
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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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