Phenology – Why your everyday observations are important
Some days it may be hard to believe, but spring is finally here and with spring comes new beginnings in nature. Migratory birds are returning, plants are starting to bud, and the ice is finally off the...
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Burn, Prairie, Burn!
Photo: Whitney Thesing To me, a perfect spring morning is standing in front of acres of native prairie with a drip torch in my hands, ready to set it ablaze. For four years I worked doing ecological...
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Bio-Control: Using Nature to Fight Nature
Invasive Leafy Spurge showing signs of Flea Beetle Larva damage. Caleb Ashling – Natural Resources Technician: City of Burnsville photo credit. Often in our lives we hear the phrase, “Ignorance is...
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Local Spotlight in Minnesota: The Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
Just about 45 minutes north of the metro area in East Bethel, lies a unique piece of land that few people know about yet is home to some of the most well known ecological experiments in the world. I...
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Edible Invasives
I am an ecologist at heart. Even when I go for my afternoon runs, I cannot help but look in the ditches along the side of the road and survey what plant species are in there. Sometimes it’s good things...
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Season of Change
Autumn is one of the best times of the year. You can enjoy being outside on the warm, sunny days catching up on everything you forgot to do in the summer without the threat of melting, and you can...
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Tracking through the Snow
Ready for it or not, winter will soon be upon us, although with the freezing temperatures outside the past few weeks, I would say that it has made an early entrance. With winter, of course, comes snow....
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