by Michael Adamovic | Apr 23, 2021 | General, Natural History
A Brief History of Colonization and the Loss of Northeastern Old-Growth Forests The first Europeans to arrive to eastern North America were greeted with what some have recently called the “Great American Forest.” This mainly uninterrupted wall stretching...
by admin | May 2, 2011 | Natural History, Publications, Apps, and Websites
The Cultural Landscape Foundation presents: Every Tree Tells a Story featuring extraordinary trees and tree groupings at twelve sites around the country and Puerto Rico. The show includes a history of the elms of East Hampton, New York. For the website CLICK...
by admin | Mar 15, 2011 | Natural History, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Now that plants are starting to flower (I have gotten reports of skunk cabbage and pussy willow) you can help record this natural phenomenon by using the New York-based website Project Bud Break. According to the website it is associated with a national effort, a...
by admin | Mar 8, 2011 | Natural History, Plant Identification, Publications, Apps, and Websites
Margaret Conover, a botanist from SUNY Stony Brook, has written an interesting overview of how botany has been taught in American high schools from 1800 to the present. She states that just over 100 years ago nearly all high-school students studied botany for a full...
by admin | Mar 3, 2011 | Ecology, Natural History, Plant Uses
A recent New York Times article by Richard Conniff entitled “How Species Save Our Lives” heaps praise on naturalists and their discovery of species that have provided the many health benefits that we enjoy today. I like his comments, “Were it not...
by admin | Feb 17, 2011 | Ecology, Natural History
While browsing the website Parasite of the Day, I came across an interesting article about dodder and a reference about how they key on odors or chemical signals of some plants to find a host. Here is a detailed entry about it in the Why Files Blog. This species is...
