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Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: Fat bears (opens the original)
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The ironically exuberant song "Food, Glorious Food" from the musical "Oliver!" showcases a bleak reality of Victorian England. Half-starved, mistreated orphans in a workhouse fantasize about food while queuing for their meager rations of gruel. Their obsession is understandable. Food means survival. Among the wildlife of our region, no animal demonstrates that same food obsession better than the black bear. During autumn's feeding frenzy, a bear may spend as many as 22 hours a day foraging, cons
Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: Chickadees try to remember (opens the original)
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"Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow." Those lyrics, from the musical "The Fantasticks," certainly do not describe chickadees. September is anything but slow for these little birds. They're scatter-hoarding, feverishly gathering and hiding thousands of individual seeds—and a few insects—in cracks and crevices beneath tree bark, among lichens and probably in a few really good hiding places known only to them. But the second verse of the song— "Deep in Decemb
Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: Retired Leaves (opens the original)
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Paul Simon's lyrics to "Leaves That Are Green" seem particularly apt as summer gives way to autumn. "Leaves that are green turn to brown, And they wither with the wind, And they crumble in your hand." Those green leaves were remarkably productive during the growing season, capturing the sun's energy and converting it into the carbohydrates a tree needs to grow. But, as Simon reminds us, time hurries on. Long before we notice the brilliant colors of autumn, the tree has already begun preparing fo
Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: While summer lasts (opens the original)
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"Merry it is while summer lasts,With birds in song;But now the wind's blast draws near,And the weather grows harsh." So goes one modern translation of one of the oldest surviving secular songs, written nearly 800 years ago. It captures something people have always known: summer is fleeting and winter is hard. For wildlife, that reality is measured not in comfort, but survival. As the days begin to shorten, changing day length triggers hormonal changes that tell animals winter is on its way, long
Outdoors with Coggin Heeringa: Dot by dot (opens the original)
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From the first luminous notes of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George," we realize that the score is a kind of musical pointillism. Just as painter Georges Seurat built his famous masterpiece dot by dot, Sondheim and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick build the musical texture note by note and voice by voice until an entire Sunday afternoon in the park comes into focus. As we learn through this unique lesson in art history, Seurat based his revolutionary technique on color theory
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