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4 days ago1 min read
Poetry Corner
Lichen Robert Wrigley Not a moss but slower, a kind of lumpenproletariat fungus come in bunches no one keeps an eye on. Grandmother ones,...
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sab5561
Nov 211 min read
On A More Serious Note....
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...
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sab5561
Oct 123 min read
Thinking It Through
Having plenty of time to think while I’m out in the woods hunting the elusive NNIP (non-native invasive plant, of course…), some...
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sab5561
Sep 152 min read
How to....
Yep, another "how to" post on controlling those pesky, darn, irrepressible invasive plant species. It's fall here in Vermont (or late...
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sab5561
Aug 43 min read
So What?
When I was in university - back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth - there was a question we were trained to ask each other in critical...
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sab5561
Jan 262 min read
Always Learning
For the past two months, while working on a grant driven restoration project for the Winooski Valley Park District, I encountered the...
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sab5561
Dec 3, 20231 min read
Just Because....
Tentatively identified using iNaturalist as Dacrymyces chrysospermus, or, Orange Jelly Spot. I found it on a downed cedar while marking...
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sab5561
Nov 9, 20233 min read
...And More!
So you're now an invasive management pro, always wearing your work gloves and carrying your Corona folding saw (not an official...
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sab5561
Sep 24, 20234 min read
So Now What?
While reading my previous post a thought occurred to me, specifically, that ideology requires practice, or as we used to say in graduate...
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sab5561
Aug 16, 20233 min read
Work your land. Know your land. Love your land.
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...
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sab5561
Jul 21, 20232 min read
This Is Not Your Friend
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...
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sab5561
Jun 29, 20232 min read
But It Doesn't Look Invasive....
Kill your tree(s). Yes, please do; kill your trees. Specifically, kill your Norway maples. All of them (and yes, that purple ("red")...
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sab5561
May 6, 20231 min read
April Showers and May Flowers
Looking down as you stroll through the forest you'll likely see the spring ephemerals flowering - trillium, blue cohosh, round and sharp...
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sab5561
Mar 7, 20232 min read
It's winter, finally
A nice blanket of heavy, wet snow to finish our global warming half winter of record warmth and low snowpack. As I hiked through...
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sab5561
Jan 18, 20231 min read
Where's The Snow?
The question on everyone's lips and minds - where's the white stuff? Skiers slaloming in slush on Mt. Mansfield in the middle of January...
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sab5561
May 15, 20222 min read
It's Summer In May
A week of mid-eighties, mid-July temperatures in what used to be the last vestiges of late winter - climate change is coming at us like a...
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sab5561
Jan 5, 20222 min read
Winter tree and shrub identification
This is a new area of learning for me, so of course I ordered the book - "Woody Plants in Winter: A Manual of Common Trees and Shrubs in...
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