Not too long ago, I led a mushroom walk in central Massachusetts for the North Country Land Trust. Just prior to my foray, there’d been a mycological club foray at the same site, and the vast number of mushrooms collected by those foragers lay in waste on the ground near a picnic table. As a result, my own group encountered very few mushrooms.
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Fresh Pond Almanac—October at the Meadow
🏙️ Observing Nature in the City
Nature is closer than we think – present all around us in our busy cities. She has added a few activities to ease the journey of discovering urban wildlife.
🏞️ Forest Immersion » Going Back Home
Summary ꙳ Objectives ▹ This circle is a mindful Forest Immersion. It is structured so as to make the mindfulness of the experience explicit and accessible. Ideally, Forest Immersion (or Forest Attuning) happens in a forest, but it needs not be. You can pick a meadow, a beach, or your own garden. It is important however that […]
Flora, Fauna, and … Funga? The Case for
Top: Giuliana Furci wrote a field guide for Chilean fungi and set up the Fungi Foundation when she realized the unique organisms were largely ignored in Chile. Photo: Mateo Barrenengoa Fungi are fundamental to rich and sustainable ecosystems. But they still lack explicit legal protections. August 9, 2021 by Jonathan Moens In 1999, Giuliana Furci […]
Fresh Pond Almanac—September at the Mead
Wasps Biosurveillance and Milkweed Haven
Mid-summer highlights about the importance of wasps, and milkweed. What do they have in common? They’re often feared (wasps), or despised (milkweed). Here’s to them!
Fresh Pond Almanac—August at the Meadow
Join us as we investigate some of the insect activity at Fresh Pond, and the variety of plants that host it.
Don’t Hike so Close to Me: How the Prese
In a recent review of hundreds of studies covering many species, we found that the presence of humans can alter wild animal and bird behavior patterns at much greater distances than most people may think.
EwA Internship » Biodiversity and Climat
Ideal internship for undergraduates and graduate students preferably studying environmental sciences, ecology, and/or conservation biology…