Louv (2005) introduced the phrase “nature-deficit-disorder” to characterize the growing concern over children’s isolation from nature. He suggested that not only is nature necessary for physical, emotional, and spiritual health, but that it also promotes environmental...
Here’s how to start. Buy food for fourteen people for two weeks. Stuff rough totes with equipment: spotting scopes, mist nets, GPS units, maps, compasses, measuring tapes, Pesola scales, Longworth traps, densiometer, plant press. Assemble a reference...
The first song of a male Red-winged Blackbird in late winter reminds me of the many hours I have spent among these birds studying their social lives and trying to discover the meanings of their alarm and contact calls and songs. What messages were the males...
Engaging children and young adults in natural history is an important challenge. Natural history—“a practice of intentional focused attentiveness and receptivity to the more-than-human world, guided by honesty and accuracy”—(Fleischner 2001, 2005) may be beneficial to...
The first annual Northeast Natural History Gathering: Warblers and Wildflowers Weekend was held at Hosmer Point Camp in Craftsbury, Vermont, May 17-19, 2013. The gathering was organized in partnership with the Natural History Network and Sterling College, a four-year...
Winter sun glints through the mesquite bosque as we stride along the dirt road almost in sight of the imposing border wall that cleaves the Sonoran Desert into two diminished fragments. Members of a group drawn together to advance a strategy to revitalize natural...