Free Range Children
September 6, 2018
For the past forty or so years, researchers who study the outdoor play and learning of children have noted the... Read More →
Wetlands for Water Cleanup
August 30, 2018
For centuries, in the Western world, swamps have had a negative reputation, and this still carries over in our language... Read More →
Our Ecosystem Moving North
August 23, 2018
Back in the 1970s, I started taking my kids canoeing in the Boundary Waters Wilderness of northern Minnesota. Driving north... Read More →
Another Armadillo
August 16, 2018
You might recall that I offered an article in the January 2016 issue of Heritage, Bur Oak Land Trust’s environmental... Read More →
Dodder, A Unique Plant
August 9, 2018
Occasionally, when out walking through a prairie or a weedy lot, you will find a patch of plants that look... Read More →
An Imperial Moth
August 2, 2018
While out for a walk through my butterfly plantation in the July twilight, I thought I saw a large yellow... Read More →
Unlikely Havens
July 26, 2018
As I’ve mentioned previously, during the summer of 1965 I was employed as a mineral collector and fossil hunter for... Read More →
Ventifacts: Signature of Our Ancient Wind
July 19, 2018
Spring was typically breezy this year, and folks who measure available wind energy in the Midwest usually find April to... Read More →
Infatuated with Hummingbirds
July 12, 2018
Two years ago, when Mark Jagnow and I were building a 50-foot-long trellis across the south side of my house... Read More →
A Favorite Sunset
July 5, 2018
One of the joys of being outdoors daily is witnessing ephemeral sky phenomena like crystalline sun dogs, rainbowed lunar halos,... Read More →
