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WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS, PART 2. PROFILES OF THREATENED SPECIES.

Eastern Fence Lizard Let's take a look at an additional seven wildlife species that live, nest, or winter in the 7.5 mile corridor of the...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 316 min read

WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS : Profiles of threatened species - Part 1

Hikers clambering up America's most popular day hike - Breakneck Ridge When I first arrived in Cold Spring, New York in the late 1980's...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 197 min read

REVISITING BARRY COMMONER'S 4 LAWS OF ECOLOGY

To make sense of the world, one generally needs guideposts, perspectives and teachings --- typically designed by brilliant and wise...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 9, 20245 min read

ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD, ECHOES OF MAINE........

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...

Pete Salmansohn

Jun 15, 20213 min read

Of Cormorants, Deer, and Geese, Oh My............

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

Pete Salmansohn

May 5, 20215 min read

Farmer Steph - An Earthy Missionary!

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...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 5, 20218 min read

Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine

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...

Pete Salmansohn

Aug 25, 20205 min read

Hope is a thing with fins.................

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

Pete Salmansohn

Jun 12, 20204 min read

Meditations during early spring.

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

Pete Salmansohn

Mar 30, 20203 min read

Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety

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

Pete Salmansohn

Feb 17, 20204 min read

Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.

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...

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 24, 20204 min read

My friend Ted

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

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 12, 20203 min read

Brief reflections on a "new year"

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

Pete Salmansohn

Jan 1, 20202 min read

Puffin Pete Salmansohn

on Environmental Education, Nature, and Social Ecology

WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS, PART 2. PROFILES OF THREATENED SPECIES.

WILDLIFE AND OVERTOURISM IN THE HUDSON HIGHLANDS : Profiles of threatened species - Part 1

REVISITING BARRY COMMONER'S 4 LAWS OF ECOLOGY

ECHOES OF CHILDHOOD, ECHOES OF MAINE........

Of Cormorants, Deer, and Geese, Oh My............

Farmer Steph - An Earthy Missionary!

Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine

Hope is a thing with fins.................

Meditations during early spring.

Navigating a path amidst children's eco-anxiety

Heroes, ecology, and lessons to be learned.

My friend Ted

Brief reflections on a "new year"