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Climate III – Visualizing Our Big Picture
My blog about the drivers for our local climate noted that the Rockies and the Appalachians play an important role... Read More →
My blog about the drivers for our local climate noted that the Rockies and the Appalachians play an important role... Read More →
“I had a large and commodious box built and fixed on a pole, for the reception of Martins, in an... Read More →
In 1974, Dick Baker and I were teaching an introductory environmental class at the University of Iowa. One of our... Read More →
What connects you to the wild? That was the question keynote speaker Dave Conrads posed to the audience at Bur... Read More →
Our weather lately has been the talk of the town. Following up on a recent Prairie Preview conversation, I will... Read More →
One of the biggest, but rarely talked about threats to prairie conservation comes during transitions of land ownership. I’m frequently... Read More →
Most of the tree species in our native sylva either have a reciprocity agreement with animals, in which the tree... Read More →
One thing that unites us as a nation is land: Americans strongly support saving the open spaces they love. Since... Read More →
Back in the 1980s a lot of us were promoting living snowfences to control snow drifting on the most difficult... Read More →
The blinding glare of the April evening sun over the water obscures my ability to sort out details. I’m standing... Read More →