Today, beloved readers, we break into the double digits. Today, I will share a confession. As a child and a young person, I would often wish, "Oh, if only something BIG would happen in my lifetime." I looked at the writers I considered to be "serious" writers, and saw them writing to the catastrophes of … Continue reading Shelter in Place: Day 10
Prairie Ecology
SMALL News
(The title is a self-referential joke, because earlier I had a post called Small News. I just want everyone to get my jokes.) Well, I haven't posted on what we're up to in the Arb for a while. My apologies! Currently we're doing vegetation sampling, which is counting the cover and occurrence of prairie plants, … Continue reading SMALL News
Ecology and Watership Down: Giving the People What They Want
People talk a lot about the allegory of Watership Down, but that's too mainstream for me. I'm nothing if not a niche writer (get it?), so here are some of the ecological highlights from Watership Down. It's what everyone wants. Or at least what I want. Time to tear down the "wall" between biology and … Continue reading Ecology and Watership Down: Giving the People What They Want
What All The Kids Are Doing 