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Homecoming

March 16, 2017 - When the beavers returned to the millpond last year, I saw almost daily evidence of their busy work, the undoing of whic...
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Exceedingly busy

January 23, 2017 - Not only was today a work day, but it was also chilly, raw, and, for much of the time, rainy and windy. For a brief time...
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Thaw advantaged

January 21, 2017 - We've barely had winter, but, almost right on cue, the fabled January Thaw has taken hold of the weather and the tempera...
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Waterfall renewal

November 07, 2016 - There's noise in the local millpond waterfall, and, as if in confirmation that the world isn't about to dry out... yet..
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Drought easer

October 24, 2016 - With the more than half-an-inch of rain that we enjoyed over the past couple of days, the millpond was beginning to fill...
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Running on empty

August 30, 2016 - The last day of the month brought me back to the millpond dam after too long an absence. I had a notion that the stream...
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Feathering the waters

May 15, 2016 - It was unnaturally chilly this morning, and on last night's "News for Lake Woebegon" segment of A Prairie Home Companion...
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We have met the enemy

September 13, 2015 - One sign that my expertise might be at least semi-useful is that I get calls from time to time to use my natural history...
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Outsized ambition

August 09, 2015 - "A man's reach should exceed his grasp," famously wrote Robert Browning in "Andrea del Sarto," a poem about an Italian R...
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