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Saving Nature: Why?

Jul 1, 2000

Vol. 5 Issue 3, Summer 2000 By Joe Coleman Photo by Katherine Daniels Aldo Leopold, author of ‘A Sand Country...

Favorite Hummingbird Plants

Jul 1, 2000

The following is a list of favorite hummingbird plants. It includes both native and non-native plants. Also check out our Gardening...

Inviting Wildlife Into Your Garden: Providing Water

Jul 1, 2000

Vol. 5 Issue 3, Summer 2000 By Patty Selly If you are lucky enough to have a pond, stream, or...

Stream Valleys: Corridors of Life

Oct 1, 1999

Vol. 4 Issue 3, Fall 1999 By Joe Coleman The sound of a rippling stream flowing over rocks, clean and...

Protecting Our Natural Resources

Apr 1, 1999

Vol. 4 Issue 2, Spring 1999 By Joe Coleman [1999] The Rural Economic Land Use task force released its report,...

Vernal Pools: Vanishing Habitat

Jan 1, 1999

Vol. 4 Issue 1, Winter 1999 By Leslie McCasker vernal: of, relating to, appearing or occurring in, the spring (Webster’s...

Spare that Brush!

Jan 1, 1999

Vol. 4 Issue 1, Winter 1998/1999 By Joe Coleman Woodsman, spare that brush! Small creatures need it for food and...

A Low Tech Way to Co-exist With Beavers

May 21, 1998

Beavers are our wetland engineers, creating wonderful habitat for a widely diverse set of animals and plants. By appreciating their...

Bringing in the Butterflies

Apr 1, 1997

Vol. 2 Issue 2, Spring 1997 By Barbara Holland Spicebush Swallowtail. After a close call with pesticides and habitat destruction,...

Hedgerows

Oct 1, 1996

Vol. 1 Issue 2, Fall 1996 There’s nothing like owning a little piece of nature of your own. A hedgerow,...

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