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Long Reads: The Land Holds Memories
There’s a certain defensiveness that comes when you tell people you love the prairies. Saying you love the ocean or the mountains brings nods of understanding, but acknowledging love for flat grasslands often…
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Wild About Bird Songs
Have you ever stepped out your front door and just listened? If you live in a city, your local soundscape is probably dominated by the sounds of urban life: traffic, kids playing, the…
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Wild About the Trimates
Today, Jane Goodall is a household name associated with not only the conservation of chimpanzees, but with protecting nature around the world. Originally, however, Goodall was one of three women recruited by anthropologist…
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Wild About Carnivorous Plants
Plants that are large enough to catch and eat people or other large prey only exist in fantasy novels and our imagination, but their smaller, real-life cousins are just as fascinating. Whether it’s…
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Wild About the Return of Bison
Try as I might, my 21st century settler brain cannot comprehend the scale of bison herds that used to roam across the plains of North America. Early colonizers report riding for three days…
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Wild About Corvids
If you live in a city, which most of us do these days, corvids are probably one of the groups of birds that you are most familiar with and have an opinion about.…
a miscellany of wonder
