Not just cuddly little black bears either, but Marsican brown bears (Ursus arctos marsicanus) in the Central Apennines in Italy. These...

That Is the Question....   (What follows is an abridged version of an article published on the Ecological Landscape Alliance (ELA) ...

Seeing as how this is supposedly a blog about invasive management, and seeing as how there are some divergent ideas about whether...

"To use the world well, to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it." Ursula Le Guin I got some feedback on...

How about that yard full of invasives - non-native grass, forbs, shrubs, trees - most Americans (and until a few years ago myself) see as...

It’s cold. Actually cold, not kinda sorta cold, or just below freezing, or 45º today and 25º tomorrow ‘cold.’ No, it’s cold, ten degrees...

Brush piles - who wants ‘em? Who needs ‘em? I mean, who wants a bunch of dead sticks in their beautiful woods, yard, or field, right?...

I read this book last winter, but it's stuck with me as I've worked with clients on trying to reduce deer pressure on regenerating...

Lichen Robert Wrigley Not a moss but slower, a kind of lumpenproletariat fungus come in bunches no one keeps an eye on. Grandmother ones,...

Don't have a lot to say about the paper I've linked to below, except that as far as I'm concerned anyone and everyone with the least...

Having plenty of time to think while I’m out in the woods hunting the elusive NNIP (non-native invasive plant, of course…), some...

Yep, another "how to" post on controlling those pesky, darn, irrepressible invasive plant species. It's fall here in Vermont (or late...

When I was in university - back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - there was a question we were trained to ask each other in critical...

For the past two months, while working on a grant driven restoration project for the Winooski Valley Park District, I encountered the...

Tentatively identified using iNaturalist as Dacrymyces chrysospermus, or, Orange Jelly Spot. I found it on a downed cedar while marking...

So you're now an invasive management pro, always wearing your work gloves and carrying your Corona folding saw (not an official...

While reading my previous post a thought occurred to me, specifically, that ideology requires practice, or as we used to say in graduate...

Love your land. Know your land. Two pieces of the same whole. It’s hard, no, impossible to truly love something, to love anything you...

It's striking how alien and, well, repulsive ticks look in closeup. Probably a good thing, too, that they don't look like puppies or...

Kill your tree(s). Yes, please do; kill your trees. Specifically, kill your Norway maples. All of them (and yes, that purple ("red")...