Animal Tracking Part 1: Body Plans
December 6, 2018 7:00 pm Leave your thoughtsWell, our first snow came about on schedule for those of us south of I-80, and it offered a few... Read More →
Author Archives for Lon Drake
About Lon Drake
This old guy's favorite large-scale conservation projects include integrating soils, water, plants, and animals, especially native species. I still bike through my South Sycamore stormwater management system from 2001.
Building a Better Brushpile
November 29, 2018 7:00 pm Leave your thoughtsMany of the books and articles about creating or improving habitat advocate building brushpiles. And in my experience, this advocacy... Read More →
Winterberry: An Attractive and Useful Native
November 22, 2018 7:00 pm 2 CommentsThe East Coast has about a dozen species of holly, most of them evergreen, with pointy leaves and red berries,... Read More →
A Different Deer Encounter
November 15, 2018 7:00 pm 3 CommentsBack around the turn of the century, I designed a stormwater corridor for the southeast corner of Iowa City. It... Read More →
Coralberry: A Versatile Native Shrub
November 8, 2018 7:00 pm 2 CommentsOur native coralberry is also called buckbrush. Most commonly found as a low, spindly, scrawny shrub with a few leaves... Read More →
My Wonderful Muzzleloader Deer Hunt
November 1, 2018 6:00 pm 7 CommentsOnly a month ago I had decided to forego the early muzzleloader deer hunt, which happens during a week in... Read More →
Building Backyard Habitat
October 25, 2018 6:00 pm 2 CommentsTwo decades ago, Toni Stahl and Marc Apfelstadt were contemplating converting their city lot in Dublin, Ohio to habitat... Read More →
Coralville Named for its Fossils
October 18, 2018 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsIn the early 1830s, Swiss naturalist Jean de Charpentier lead Louis Agassiz on a tour through the Alps, proving to... Read More →
Land Easements Become Conservation Easements, Yesteryear
October 11, 2018 6:00 pm 3 CommentsConservation easements as we know them have their origins in British law and traditions centuries ago, when the landscape was... Read More →
The Mandarin Question
October 4, 2018 6:00 pm 2 CommentsIn the era before radio, TV, and e-screens, people provided most of their own entertainment. The Lewis and Clark expedition... Read More →
