Today I want to share with you a fascinating story from Science Daily on how the invasive reed Phragmites australis manages to suppress other wetland plants by taking advantage of the biochemical activities of native plant roots and native microbes in the soil. [...]
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Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans) Lynx spiders (family Oxyopidae) are some of my favorites. They’re big, charismatic, and colorful. The family is a distinctive one with only 3 genera and 18 species in North America. Lynx spiders have prominent, long, straight spines on the legs, and a characteristic hexagonal arrangement of the eyes (which is [...] I’m headed to the Catskills to enjoy the woods and the river for a few days. Last year I did a lot of botanizing, mothing, and bee photography. Hopefully this year will be even better!
Fishing in the Catskills Renewable. Sustainable. Green. All of these buzzwords make us feel good about our progress toward mainstreaming alternative energy sources. We need to power an increasingly energy-hungry world in the face of global climate change, and we all know that fossil fuels are not the solution. What often gets lost in the excitement surrounding “green” energy, though, is [...] I recently returned from spending several days hard at work on my “farm”. Why the quotation marks? Well, the 116-acre property, which has been in my family since the early 1900s, doesn’t grow crops or livestock these days, but does produce both Grasshopper Sparrows and Henslow’s Sparrows on 80+ acres of reclaimed strip mine. Situated on [...] |
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