HeyJaredEarth Alive: Field Notes From the Southern Mountains
A naturalist-teacher's wonderment and perplexity in light of the perilous State of the Planet~a teachable moment? Do feel free to leave comments. The conversation helps me know I'm not a tree falling in the forests and stimulates me to dig deeper.
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Freeing the Forest (opens the original)
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Last spring, a sister facility from St Louis got in touch with our grounds committee on which I serve with a request to visit our campus, examine our adjacent acres of woods and discuss our woods management plan.We realized with that prompt that, actually, we did not have a woods management plan.<div class="ima
Field and Ground (opens the original)
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Pending any post of a more ambitious nature (in progress) I’ll just share a few images and snippets and that will take away some of the guilt of my lethargy and shame over my generally unproductive and fully forgettable summer of ‘26. First, I lament that, after having the new Nikon now for a couple of months, I have not used it consistently (given the unrelenting heat and humidity), Anything I learn about the settings and controls I will have forgotten two weeks later when I brave the oven outd
Walking Wendell Home (opens the original)
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I walk in the much-too-warm of a modern summer in the current age as the daylight spills across the curved arc of morning, seen from space. I am exactly there, mid-continent mid-latitude, a tiny speck on the newly skylit curve, greeting the day. But not so much greeting as bracing against it now that the hourglass grains of days are precious few.I never imagined I’d live this long, or want to, or still have wants yet to wake up to long for and to grasp. And now the letting go.<a class="image-lin
Butterflies: Will Our Grandchildren Know Them? (opens the original)
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NOTE: This post was sent by mistake to only my faithful paid subscribers and I was not able to edit and resend to everyone. So to the former group, bear with me as you see this post one more time. With any luck it won’t happen again. Once upon a time, butterflies and moths were abundant in August.When I took entomology at Auburn in the 70s, a visit to the light towers near the tennis courts was always good for a half-dozen different moths (and giant roach-like water bugs that would dive bomb you
The Illusive Butterfly (opens the original)
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Once upon a time, butterflies and moths were abundant in August. When I took entomology at Auburn in the 70s, a visit to the light towers near the tennis courts was always good for a half-dozen different moths (and giant roach-like water bugs that would dive bomb you just as you were about to serve.) And checking the front grille of you car (back when) would often find various butterfly wing remnants, along with countless beetles and “love bugs.” When is the last time you had to clean bug parts
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