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Forget social distancing
May 27, 2020 - I needed to make a reconnaissance hike through the Babcock Ridge and Henne preserves—my goal was to shot videos that I c...
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Racer relations
May 15, 2019 - I have a public walk coming up this Saturday, so, to prepare for it, I had to do an advance trek... tough assignment, bu...
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Vernal night hike
March 27, 2019 - One of the greatest joys of my life has been the numerous natural history walks I've been able to lead over the years to...
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Sez who?
June 01, 2018 - Tomorrow is National Trails Day, and I, of course, am scheduled to lead a public walk, this time to the Avalonia Land Co...
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A touch of thaw
February 11, 2017 - Today was a gift, but not one I expected to have... and not one I really wanted. My granddaughter Stasia and my daughter...
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For MLK Jr., a question
January 16, 2017 - Given how busy every Monday is with writing my weekly natural history column, I wasn't, as is often the case, sure I'd m...
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Emergence
January 10, 2017 - After writing all morning—reluctantly, I might add; I wanted to get out on the snow in advance of, sigh, a warming and r...
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Vernal RIP
December 29, 2016 - Today's journey took me to the main vernal pool at the Babcock Ridge preserve. It's a frequent destination, and after th...
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Bad luck, good luck
November 20, 2016 - At the end of last month, I rejoiced to see, on a very rainy night, that one of the vernal pools I monitor at the Babcoc...
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Pretty parasol
September 30, 2016 - We've had a little bit of blessed rain recently, and while it's not enough to nudge us out of the Severe drought categor...
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Spent tulips
September 20, 2016 - I was on a mission today: after the fairly significant rains earlier, I wanted to check the vernal pool at the Babcock r...
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Observing National Trails Day
June 04, 2016 - I couldn't have asked for nicer weather for National Trails Day—or a nicer group of about a dozen or so people who showe...
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A rumor of rattlesnakes
June 03, 2016 - The task for today's trek, as if I ever really needed an excuse for a walk, was to circumnavigate the Babcock Ridge and...
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Cooperative but still uncertain waterthrush
May 27, 2016 - I managed a before-work walk to the Babcock Ridge and Henne preserves, places I needed to check out in advance of a Nati...
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The right path
January 16, 2016 - I had the good fortune of working on the trail creation crew at the Babcock Ridge preserve, an area I've trekked and wri...
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Icebreaking
January 02, 2016 - Maybe we actually will have a meteorological winter in 2016... After the insanely warm start of the Once-Cold Season, th...
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A touch of snow
December 29, 2015 - Finally! Just when I'd begun thinking that maybe, just maybe, the white stuff would steer clear of my locale this season...
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Last meadowhawk?
December 12, 2015 - When the temperature this afternoon soared into the 60s—a new high, I'm pretty sure—I knew that I had a mission: to visi...
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A genuine survivor
February 21, 2015 - I love this tree, an ancient birch sculpted by decades of exposure to wind, rain, snow, cold, warmth, birds, and bugs. I...
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Study in ice
January 17, 2015 - Ice has been a recurrent theme in the recent week's walks... and posts. This abstraction, however, was pretty much unexp...
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Rocky road
November 21, 2014 - I had a little bit of time between trying to work my way through some overdue writing projects, and I wanted to check on...
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