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Field Notes: February Joy
By Joe Brehm, Chief Program Officer
When I asked participants at a recent animal tracking workshop hosted by Appalachian Understories what they really wanted to see ... Read More
Field Notes: Beauty in Prothonotary Form
By Joe Brehm, Environmental Education Director
As we tiptoed along the overgrown trail at Greendale Wetland, one male prothonotary warbler sang its rich, direct song. One ... Read More
Field Notes: Bear Witness to the Beauty of Birds This Spring
(This is part of a series of Field Notes focusing on our feathered friends as we get ready for the Birds in the Hills Festival, ... Read More
Field Notes: Meet a Few of Ohio’s ‘Snow Birds’
(This is the first of several Field Notes focusing on our feathered friends as we get ready for the Birds in the Hills Festival, which ... Read More
Field Notes: Learn About Lichen While the Wildflowers Sleep
By Joe Brehm, Environmental Education Director
If you enjoy complaining about winter, you may not want to read this, because I’m hoping to give you one ... Read More
Field Notes: The Sting of Studying Local Food Webs
By Joe Brehm, Environmental Education Director
Though ours is one of the most benign natural regions in the world – few venomous creatures, mild climate, etc. ... Read More
Field Notes: Windmills and Desert Hares
This Field Note is by Hazel Escobedo, AmeriCorps Member, Environmental Education
I wandered around the fifth-grade classroom, immersed in the ... Read More
Field Notes: A Hummingbird Encounter
This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director
“But it had left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not ... Read More
Field Notes: A Summer Eruption of Fruiting Fungi
This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director
The cycles of warm rain and sunshine stimulate serious summer fecundity in Southeast Ohio ... Read More
Field Notes: A Walk Through Summer Woods
This Field Note is by Joe Brehm, Rural Action Environmental Education Director.
Fighting through an understory thick with invasive multiflora rose and the friendlier northern spicebush, ... Read More
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