Winter Deer and Disease
February 20, 2021
Iowa is in a good location regarding the effects of winter on its deer population. Further north, above the Canadian... Read More →
Pine Siskins: Goldfinches in Disguise
February 13, 2021
Northern states tend to have most of their hunting seasons in autumn. One of the reasons is that winter mortality... Read More →
Buckbrush and Deer in Winter
February 6, 2021
A few years ago, I offered several notes about native coralberry and how this small shrub is useful to birds... Read More →
Woodlot Surprise: A Broadaxe
January 30, 2021
When we moved into our rural homestead in 1977, there was a misshapen oak tree growing through a wire fence.... Read More →
Ice Safety
January 23, 2021
So far it has been a mild winter, keeping our midseason pond ice marginal for ice fishing and other topside... Read More →
A Little History of the Birchbark Canoe
January 16, 2021
A few weeks ago, we took a quick look back at the North American kayak as noted by early Europeans... Read More →
Managing a Firewood Woodlot
January 9, 2021
Heating your house with firewood is sometimes rated as carbon neutral because it is solar energy via photosynthesis, stored as... Read More →
A Little History of the Kayak
December 22, 2020
Much of what we know today about the history of the American kayak we owe to two people: Edwin T.... Read More →
A Winter Project: Build a Recycled Kayak
December 16, 2020
In 2014, Judy Joyce was creating Seize The Carp Day, proposed as an annual summer event to encourage people to... Read More →
Quaking Aspen
November 23, 2020
There are two species of aspen in North America and both of them live in eastern Iowa. The two are... Read More →
