When my brother and I were young, our parents would take us each summer to a new place in the countryside where we could swim and fish...

In the summer of 1998, nine men took several boat trips out to a small island in eastern Lake Ontario and shot approximately 900...

Good news is frequently under the radar these days, as the late Pete Seeger reminded us, but we can find that good stuff by putting our...

When I first came to work as an instructor for adults at the Audubon Ecology Camp in Maine 40 years ago, I didn’t know the difference...

Writing anything original and meaningful these days feels like a very daunting challenge. I’ve been feeling like a deer-in-the-headlights...

Spring is arriving here in fits and starts. The male cardinals in our neighborhood have been loudly singing the past few weeks, alerting...

I recently saw on our neighborhood Facebook pages several photographs of a mock funeral march and event for planet earth and its...

My world as a very impressionable kid growing up on Long Island was influenced in the late 1950’s and early ‘60’s by make-believe...

In the early stages of my career as a neophyte young naturalist, I was introduced to a variety of hawk watchers, mentors, bird Gods,...

At this time of year, in early January, my thoughts turn to the great observer and chronicler of nature – Hal Borland – who lived on a farm