A braver newer world
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....
What to bee-lieve
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...
A Year from the Naturalist’s Corner: Volume 1
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...
Birds and butterflies and flowers, oh my
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...
A clear path
Last Saturday, Sept. 15, was surely a gorgeous day to be ridge running high in the Plott Balsams – clear blue skies dotted with white puff-clouds; temperatures in the low to mid 60s; a great day for a hike. Not even the weight of chainsaws, brush cutters, loppers...
Last splash
Everyone who woke up to 48 degrees Fahrenheit this morning knows that the days of “butts-in-the-creek” are quickly fading for this year. Planning for the inevitable and being parents of kids who are, if not part fish at least amphibian, we had plans for a last wet...