A Clear Creek Cleanup
July 27, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsSeth Somerville, our land stewardship guy at Bur Oak Land Trust, recently organized a maintenance project on Clear Creek, which... 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.
Attack Bats? Probably Not
July 20, 2017 6:00 pm 1 CommentWhether you live in town or out in the country, you might find yourself sharing a room with a flying... Read More →
Hoping to Disappoint, Again, at “Seize The Carp” Day
July 13, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsBack in 2014 Judy Joyce shared her goal to create a local riverfest, to encourage folks to take more interest... Read More →
Elderberries: An Underutilized Resource
July 6, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughts**Underutilized by us, because unless you hustle, the birds will get them all. My experience is that few folks have... Read More →
Singing the Butterfly Blues
June 29, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsAcross the continental USA, there are about five dozen butterfly species in a group called the “Blues,” which includes a... Read More →
The Importance of Stored Soil Moisture
June 22, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThe dry spell we had mid-May to mid-June reminds me to tell you this story: When my family first moved... Read More →
Check Dams, a Great Concept for Gully Management, Often Badly Implemented
June 19, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsIn a previous blog (Honeysuckle Brush for Erosion Control and Habitat) I mentioned that for little gullies in small watersheds,... Read More →
The Bird Grit Problem, and a Solution
June 8, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsBirds do not have teeth to chew their food. Instead, chunks of food are swallowed into a muscular gizzard that... Read More →
Native Honeysuckle Trellis Also Caters to Orioles
June 1, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsEarlier this year I posted a blog regarding a trellis system that I had built across the south side of... Read More →
Clear Some Woods for Wild Geranium
May 25, 2017 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo decades ago I noticed a farmer re-fencing a pasture near Frytown. I remembered when it had been oak-hickory forest,... Read More →
