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- Cable Natural History Museum
450 – Seeing Through a Forester’s Eyes
A crisp fall breeze floated through our group as we stomped through the forest, our shoes crunching on fallen leaves and frost. Fall had arrived in the…
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449 – Winding Our Way Toward Winter
Nosing between two rocks, the snake seemed to be searching for something. But no, that wasn’t the place. They swung around and moved along the base of the rock…
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448 – Woodland Walks with Lois Nestel
“Autumn has trailed light fingers across the byways and in the wake of that cool touch, the leaves flush or blanch and sink earthward in a silent swoon…The…
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447 – Fall Food and Fellowship
The mini-bear darted close, then scurried off, posing motionless for brief moments to survey the area for danger. From the top of a lichen-covered rock, they…
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446 – Into the Boundary Waters
The crystal clear waters splashed against the pebbled shore as we gathered up our gear. Conifers of every size crowded the distant banks, beckoning us into the…
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445 – Modes of Misery
“Here is where the journey is,” philosophized Doug Wood when I finally picked the book back up. “…why do I go through it? Because no one else can go through it…
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444 – The Sweetness of Death in Autumn
“Something smells nice right here,” commented my fiancé as we hiked over a rock outcrop strewn with sun-warmed, yellowed birch leaves. The sweet aroma of…
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443 – Holy Moly Roly Poly
"Holy Moly Roly Poly!" This enthusiastic shout came from an adorable, towheaded 4-year old, standing on the far side of a log I’d just rolled toward me…
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441 – Gems of Lake Superior
My hands moved slowly over the pebbled beach as the waves of Lake Superior gently lapped the shoreline. I had found myself a nice spot to sit on the beach…
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442 – Second Grade Tracking Stories
Last week I attended the Outdoor Writers Association of America’s annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin. At the conference, it was announced that my third…
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440 – Turtle Travels
Rosie Wollums is about to start her Junior year as an Environmental Studies and Creative Writing major at Coe College. Being in the Northwoods for the first…
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439 – Weirdos in the Kaleidoscope
Late summer days are a kaleidoscope of vibrant flowers in all colors of the rainbow. Some of the blossoms have their perfect petals neatly arranged while their…
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438 – Front Yard Safari
The flower head looked odd. Pearly everlasting—with their beautiful flat-topped cluster of white flowers with yellow centers—had finally bloomed. And now the…
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437 – House Finches Get a New Coat of Paint
Katherine Woolley is about to start her senior year as an environmental education major at Western Colorado University. When Katherine arrived for her second…
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436 – A Yellow-bellied Surprise
The Wild Wonders Summer Camp kids chattered away as they dug into their lunches, oblivious to the yellow-bellied sapsucker who skirted up and down the bark of…
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435 – Who’s Hiding in the Tapestry
From a distance, the forests of July look like a lush tapestry of green. But when you step into the loosely woven strands and take a closer look, the leaves…
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434 – Stalking Wonder
I barely caught the flash of brown out of the corner of my eye, but Kevin had a clear view. He followed the flight path of the bird until they landed on the…
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433 – Heartbeats and Birds
My heart raced as I reached my hand into the bag. What if I broke them? What if I let them escape? Then my fingers found a familiar grip, and before I knew it…
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432 – The Making of a Master Naturalist
The sound of boots crunching on sandy sediments and excited chatter filled the air. The first day of our Wisconsin Master Naturalist training had begun, and…
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431 – Preserving the Legacy of Black Ash
Dappled light, mosquitoes, and the roar of a chainsaw filled the humid air on a morning in early June. Guided by skilled hands, the blade sliced through pale…
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430 – Summer Blooms with Lois Nestel
While staying in Boulder Junction, Wis. to take a Wilderness First Responder course last week, I made time for a bike ride on the Heart of Vilas County Bike…
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429 – Fossil Explorations
I sat on the tan, dusty ground of the quarry in north central Iowa, fingers grasping at the shell that lay halfway buried in the chalky clay and limestone…
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428 – Spring Explodes in the Northwoods
In just the last week or two, new life has exploded in the Northwoods. To my brain, it feels like a burst of fireworks. Instead of embers sparkling in the…
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427 – Balsam Poplar: Tree of the Far North
The shiny resin on balsam poplar buds turns to airborne molecules during spring leaf-out. Those molecules contain a myriad of chemicals that are useful to the…
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426 – A Prairie-Dweller Moves North
A lump of gray fur in the middle of the trail pulled us up short. The small mammal was about the size of a gray squirrel, but with cute, round ears tucked…
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425 – The Trill of a Pine Warbler
My companion gasped in the middle of a sentence as a pine warbler darted over my head and landed on rough spruce bark a few feet way. Then he swooped to a rock…