In 1964, my great uncle Richard J. Dorer wrote a book entitled Ghost Tree Speaks. He was an employee of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and is credited with […]

The world’s coastlines are in retreat and encroaching on uplands. Delaware Bayshore scientists who study our coastal marshes are concerned by the accelerated rate of their loss. In the 2010’s

Often, I haven’t hung any hummingbird feeders by late April. A few years ago while washing dishes by the kitchen window an early arrival hummingbird confronted me. He looked at

My family recently spent some vacation time on the southeastern end of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada on the Saanich Inlet—where a fjord narrows to Finlayson Arm. The Inlet is

Recently I joined a group of CU Maurice River paddlers on the Muskee Creek, a tributary of the Maurice River, both of which are nationally designated U.S. Department of the

Well, I consider myself a person who enjoys looking at birds, rather than a birder. That’s probably because in our region we are blessed with a number of really “serious”

Have you ever had a day when a problem seemed to repeat in your mind like a skipping vinyl record, with no solution on the horizon? This is often labeled

With the Fourth of July behind us it’s time for some silent fireworks. One of nature’s best shows takes place between mid-July and late-August, as the earth passes through the

Decades ago Fred Akers, aka Watershed Fred, phoned me and asked if I wanted to check out a new program that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection had developed

Back in 2005 Richard Louv wrote a book that revealed a nation’s youth that is living a life separated from nature. The book was titled Last Child in the Woods: