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Fossil Butterflies?

December 7, 2017

Is it possible for nature to create fossils from creatures as frail and fragile as butterflies? While it doesn’t happen... Read More →

December 4, 2017

These words are first attributed to barbed wire salesman John Warne Gates on the square in front of the Alamo,... Read More →

November 30, 2017

One winter when I was a child, I opened up some cocoons to see how a caterpillar turned into a... Read More →

November 28, 2017

I step out onto the patio and quickly don my boots and outer garments in the chilly November air. Armored... Read More →

November 23, 2017

If you are thinking about planting a native woodland of oaks, hickories, black walnut, and their associates, consider including some... Read More →

November 20, 2017

This time of year is when I reacquaint myself with all my botanical friends in their winter repose. Having cast... Read More →

November 16, 2017

If you read gardening magazines and nursery catalogs, they often promote bareroot transplants of seedling trees and shrubs in autumn,... Read More →

November 13, 2017

I was quite surprised when the large eastern Iowa senior high school that I attended was the focus of... Read More →

November 9, 2017

If you are now at least 70 ½ years old and your retirement plan includes IRA investments in the stock... Read More →

November 2, 2017

by Lon Drake The railroad arrived in Iowa City on the last day of 1855, which offered still more impetus... Read More →