International Year of Biodiversity

Welcome to the International Year of Biodiversity

You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and their surrounding environments, all over the world.

You rely on this diversity of life to provide you with the food, fuel, [...]

The Trees Are Calling It Spring Already...

Spring

Gradual warming that began earlier this week is forecast to continue through the weekend, and by early next week high temperatures should climb into the mid-70s as warm, wet air flows inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

No rain is forecast until late this weekend, according to the National Weather Service.

Today, the high temperature will be [...]

It's A New Week And I Am Wondering Where The Birds Went...

Blue jays and robins are a sign of winter in my neck of the woods.

Over the weekend a notion of mine, one that has been percolating around in this head of mine, kept roiling to the surface.

All winter long I have been noticing an absence…A hole in the local fauna…A disturbance in the seasonal balance. [...]