by don | Oct 18, 2012
Waiting in the ubiquitous checkout line, I spied a National Geographic special publication, “50 of the World’s last great places – Destinations of a Lifetime.” Thumbing through, right between Bialowieza (remnants of ancient European forests on the border of Poland and...
by don | Oct 11, 2012
Or at least a younger one anyway – one of the ranking members of the House’s Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Rep. Paul Broun, (R) Georgia, told a gathering at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Ga. on Sept. 27 that the world was about 9,000 years old....
by don | Oct 5, 2012
Apparently what was apparent to many scientists and researchers back in 2008 is becoming more apparent – or not. Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been raising hackles and eyebrows for the better part of the last decade. CCD, characterized by the sudden...
by don | Sep 30, 2012
Foreword The Naturalist’s Corner has been in print since 1994 when I began the weekly outdoors column for Scott McLeod, then editor at Waynesville North Carolina’s Enterprise Mountaineer. When Scott left the Enterprise Mountaineer in 1999 to start his own...
by don | Sep 27, 2012
I had the pleasure of leading 9 women from the Great Smoky Mountains Audubon Chapter on an outing along the Blue Ridge Parkway last Saturday (Sept. 22.) Initially hyped as a birding trip, the early fog and high wind had us focusing on many other aspects of nature. Now...
