Picking Puffballs – Northwest Nature and History
Picking Puffballs, a look at the ecology, habitat and historical uses of Calvatia gigantea, the Giant Puffball, including tips on foraging and a simple recipe| Northwest Nature and History
William Parente explores the challenges faced by Highland communities in the time of the Clearances The post Langwell, Caithness: an exemplar of the Highland economy appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
Notes on the moth species Autographa gamma and its ecology in Northwest England, including a chapter on the phenomenon of Phototaxis| Northwest Nature and History
Obsessed with bones, illustrations, or Halloween flair? These 20 vintage skeleton prints are your new best friend. Whether you’re into anatomical art, gothic décor, or spooky crafts, these high-resolution, public … The post Free Skeleton Prints for Art, Anatomy & Halloween appeared first on Picture Box Blue.| Picture Box Blue
Damson Days, a look at the ancient hedgerow fruit, its origins, uses and cultural history, including a simple recipe for a preserve| Northwest Nature and History
Picking Puffballs, a look at the ecology, habitat and historical uses of Calvatia gigantea, the Giant Puffball, including tips on foraging and a simple recipe| Northwest Nature and History
Columnist Mark Harrington, a retired history teacher, reflects on the life of Chief Opechancanough, who led the Powhatan Confederacy.| Myasthenia Gravis News
Download a curated collection of vintage woodland prints featuring oaks, pines, acorns & pine cones. Perfect for botanical artists, forest lovers, crafts & rustic home decor. All in the Public Domain.| Picture Box Blue
Discover 39 vintage animal prints and posters featuring mammals from Leaves from the Book of Nature. Free to print and enjoy.| Picture Box Blue
I had to admit that I lacked the necessary humility to second-guess myself regarding the mites. However, the incident ultimately produced an even stronger attitude of care towards nonhumans. Natural history, as Thomas Fleischner has argued, can do this.| Earth Tongues
Here, I make a case for something that I call compassionate entomology, which is a way of studying insects and other arthropods that upholds the intrinsic value and welfare interests of the individual focal organisms.| Earth Tongues
I live my life caught between conflicting impulses: on one hand, a wish to escape the shackles of human management; and, on the other, a reticence—out of ecological respect—to roam beyond its already-excessive bounds.| Earth Tongues
Three summers ago, I typed the words “most probably correct” in closing an Earth Tongues piece titled 'Smiles and scowles: Puzzles in the Forest'. At that point, I felt that I had written all that I was ever going to on the subject of tourists experiencing curious English woodlands. But a recent encounter with an Italian couple, on a misty July morning, has set me penning this unexpected sequel.| Earth Tongues
When you have the privilege of quietly observing these cold-blooded miracles going about their lives—when you watch them exist—the need to find any other justification for their being starts to ebb away.| Earth Tongues
It was in the late 2000s that my son bought an old abandoned house in rural Ukraine, some 150 km from Kyiv. Unfortunately, we could not afford to buy something closer to the city; and we were seeking something “wild”.| Earth Tongues
Once you cut yourself off from media and start living as a recluse interesting things happen.| Earth Tongues
Near the southern end of the modern border between Wales and England – on the side of the latter – the sea-seeking River Wye and the Severn Estuary provide the aquatic outline for a curious wedge of land.| Earth Tongues
One night years ago, in a park in Florida, I met a wonderful couple, Carol Wolf and her husband, Herb. They introduced me to the joys of mothing, the practice of attracting moths to suspended sheets with ultraviolet lights at night, and photographing them. This can get quite exciting, especially when a new, or unusually beautiful, species turns up.| Earth Tongues
Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge (1878-1956) was one of the Smithsonian’s first female scientific illustrators and a supporter of women’s suffrage. Dandridge grew up in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and moved to Washington, more »| Smithsonian Libraries and Archives / Unbound
Discover the meaning of the Japanese zodiac signs with Takeuchi Seihō’s elegant paintings. Download free prints.| Picture Box Blue
Click up! Click down! Click all around!| Pine Island Audubon Center
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<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/salt_marsh.jpg?itok=tFJ-xpyR" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Tidal Freshwater Marsh (Giant Cordgrass Subtype): </strong> Extensive marshes are present on a complex of islands on the sound side of the site. This presumably is a relict tidal delta left by some past inlet. The marsh complex is a mosaic consisting primarily of the Giant Cordgrass Subtype a...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3223.jpg?itok=UXq8jNmQ" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Ponds</strong>: A number of seasonal to permanent ponds are present in the northern part of the site. Most are clearly of artificial origin or have been enlarged or deepened by digging or impounding. Water is pumped in some to alter the hydroperiod. Some have beds of Panicum hemito...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3220.jpg?itok=NwTS_wft" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Wet Grassland (Southern Hairgrass Subtype): </strong> Small patches of herbaceous-dominated vegetation in wetter swales seem best classified as this community, but are not well developed and are somewhat odd. Most occur in complexes with Stable Dune Barrens, where they have similarly o...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3209.jpg?itok=C5TVNwgi" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Shrub Swamp (Red Bay Subtype): </strong>This very rare community was seen in the southern part of the site, where it occurs as an irregular band on the wet sound side of the island, and intergrades with Maritime Swamp Forest and Maritime Evergreen Forest. It borders the marshes along ...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3225.jpg?itok=KcxWj5_e" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Swamp Forest (Typic Subtype): </strong> Occurs as scattered small to medium size patches in swales in the Maritime Evergreen Forest or on the low sound side of the island, in both the northern and southern parts of the site. The forest canopy is a varying mix of Pinus taeda, Acer rubru...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3212.jpg?itok=nOA2497m" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Shrub (Stunted Tree Subtype): </strong> Only limited areas of Maritime Shrub were seen, in narrow fringes along the seaward side of the forest, and occasional more extensive mosaics combined with Stable Dune Barren. It represents a smooth gradation in canopy stature from forest t...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/20160129_164702.jpg?itok=GhXqwH4c" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Maritime Evergreen Forest (Mid Atlantic Subtype): </strong>This community is the most extensive on the barrier island, forming the matrix in which the other non-marsh communities occur. It has a dominated by Quercus virginiana in most parts, with Pinus taeda dominant or codominant local...| Pine Island Audubon Center
<div class="editorial-card-image"><img src="https://pineisland.audubon.org/sites/default/files/styles/asc_rss/public/img_3215.jpg?itok=jLZRpSAH" /></div><div class="content-body"> <p><strong>Stable Dune Barren (Beach Heather Subtype): </strong>Occurs as small to medium size patches on higher portions of relict dunes surrounded by forest or occasionally scrub. The barrens are on the highest parts of the dunes, often with forest in lower areas around them. However, in some pla...| Pine Island Audubon Center
a lot of fish in the sound means food for birds and man alike!| Pine Island Audubon Center
a wonderland of yet to be cataloged diversity| Pine Island Audubon Center
Pine Island is heavenly for Herps| Pine Island Audubon Center
From bunnies to coyotes| Pine Island Audubon Center
Who uses Pine Island Sanctuary?| Pine Island Audubon Center
at the intersection of time and tide...| Pine Island Audubon Center
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Pine Island hosts many rare habitats and a wide diversity of plant species.| Pine Island Audubon Center
In addition to being vital to bird conservation, Pine Island provides a safe home for an amazing array of species of wildlife.| Pine Island Audubon Center
A key stop along the Atlantic Flyway bird migration route, the Outer Banks are brimming with opportunities to spot birds coming to and through the northeast corner of North Carolina.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Audubon’s Sanctuary in Corolla is host to hundreds of individual species and more are being identified and recorded regularly.| Pine Island Audubon Center
Explore stunning woodblock Japanese seashell prints. These free-to-print, public-domain artworks are perfect for arts, crafts and home decor.| Picture Box Blue
I woke to the breaths of a whale as it made its way through the channel between islands. The huff difted through my tent; in seconds I shed my sleeping-bag cocoon and sloshed down through the salal…| This Reading Life
Explore free printable art from Jean-Henri Fabre’s "Book of Insects." Perfect for enthusiasts of vintage and entomology art.| Picture Box Blue
Sunflowers must be the sunniest of flowers. Here is a fabulous collection of copyright free vintage sunflower drawings to download for your own use.| Picture Box Blue
Get out your nature notebooks – Its time for a lesson on natural history and nature study. Today we will learn all about what natural history is, who a naturalist is and how you can start your own nature study adventure. Here are your quick links: What is natural history? What is nature study? What […] The post What Is Natural History? appeared first on My Nature Nook.| My Nature Nook
We are almost at the end of 2022, and I do not want to let the year end without mention of this book – Braiding Sweetgrass – by Robin Wall Kimmerer. For me this has been the best book I have …| Jenny Connected
