Citizens United was holding a program in the garden at our house when one of our volunteers came up to me with a prehistoric-looking insect on his finger. He inquired, […]

Every year starting mid-August people ask me about the beautiful flowers draping the roadside trees. Twenty-plus years ago I misidentified it as Clematis virginiana or virgin’s bower, a native plant.

At the end of 2019, CU Maurice River was granted funding by National Fish and Wildlife through its Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund to continue growing a culture of stewardship within

The first week of August my husband Peter and I went for a 10-mile bicycle ride through Belleplain State Forest just outside of Woodbine. The flat, newly paved shaded roads

One of my great joys as a child was capturing lightning bugs. We would cup our hands and wait for them to signal to their mates. I especially enjoyed clasping

In mid-August a few years ago, I was trying to find out where the purple martins were feeding before they assembled to stage in great numbers at dusk among the

Late in the afternoon, over two decades ago, I stood at the terminus of Thompson’s Beach Road and marveled at a small flock of birds flying across the water-filled ditch

We have introduced our five-year old niece to the fun of fishing by angling for channel catfish. It’s been a great deal of fun catching and preparing our harvest. You

In March I went on a trip to Belize and returned to southern New Jersey one week before the coronavirus lockdown. In Belize, I read Douglas Tallamy’s newest book Nature’s