Thinking about all the world’s natural problems can be overwhelming. In a world of eight billion people and a whole bunch of environmental issues such as dwindling wild spaces and biodiversity, what can one person really do? You can transform your yard into quality habitat to support local ...

There’s a field I know that I often drive past on my way to quiet and contemplative places in the surrounding woodlands. I always look, but there’s rarely anything to see here but what was once a hopeful landscape, from a time that has long since passed away. There’s no fence around ...

“Losin’ wouldn’t be so bad at all but I’m always on a mountain when I fall.” – Merle Haggard From down here, I can see a ridgeline high above me. It sits across a river valley and then almost straight up about five hundred feet through steep and aggressive terrain. The ...

HOUGHTON — Naturalist and television host David Mizejewski of the National Wildlife Federation will deliver the keynote address at the Seventh Annual Keweenaw Native Plant Symposium, set for 9 a.m.-noon, Saturday, March 23, on Zoom. To learn more and register for this free event, go to ...

“And I’ll be certain she’s my girl by the things she’ll like to do – like walking in the rain.” – Cynthia Weil, Barry Mann and Phil Spector I remember being a young kid at the age of probably 9, sitting at our kitchen table on a warm Saturday morning doing math problems. I was ...

“When she’s walking by the river and the railway line, she can still hear him whisper, ‘Let’s go down to the waterline.” – Mark Knopfler The afternoon was warming steadily as I turned off the blacktop onto a road slicked with a mire of mud, gravel and melting snow. I likened ...