Please see a press release from the Dane County UW-Extension for an upcoming conference: On Saturday, February 23, 2013 the Madison Area Woodland Owners’ Conference will feature presentations focusing on drought and forest management, impacts of invasive earthworms on forests, integrated invasive plant management, managing deer, marketing timber in the current economy, safety practices for…
Nature
Beautiful Whitewater, Nature
Beautiful Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Government Spending, Nature
The City of Whitewater’s 2013 Budget: The Emerald Ash Borer
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater’s Common Council considered four budget items at length during her 11.13.12 session, of which the Emerald Ash Borer was the third. I’ll address that discussion in this post. I’m not an arborist. I did once own a bonsai tree, but my use of the past tense tells that tale. This is, however, a common…
Nature, Weird Tales
Did Hiker Film Bigfoot, Black Bear or Blobsquatch?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature
The October Sky: Blazing Venus, Andromeda, and Orionid Meteors
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, Nature
Beautiful Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, Nature
Beautiful Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Beautiful Whitewater, Nature
Beautiful Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Animals, Nature
Sea Life Beneath the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean
by JOHN ADAMS •
Nature, Politics, Weather
The Exciting Season
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Ancients saw (as some peoples still see) autumn as the beginning of the year: one’s calendar started when one reaped the harvest. The year began not in the bleak months of winter, but amid the earth’s bounty, made greater through cultivation. Even now, our school year traditionally begins in deference to an agricultural schedule.…
Nature
This Weekend: Best of the Perseid Meteor Shower
by JOHN ADAMS •
From NASA’s science news, the timing of one of the year’s best celestial shows: On the nights of Aug. 11th through 13th, the best meteor shower of the year will fill pre-dawn skies with hundreds of shooting stars. And that’s just for starters. The brightest planets in the solar system are lining up right in…