When Anne Jensen was a young girl growing up in Mt. Pleasant, she learned a lot about nature. Her father, Byron Clendening, was head of the audio-visual department at Central Michigan University, and ...

At the beginning of my internship at Woodland Dunes, I made a few goals of skills I wanted to improve upon and topics to learn about. I decided to explore the critters that live in the ponds at ...

Another close encounter of the natural kind, reported by Charlotte Bronte-saurus (“Bug Attendant”): “I never thought of them as combatants. They were both between 2 and 3 inches long — giants compared ...

Water is one of the most basic elements of our existence, an essential for life. Yet it sustains more than our bodies. It has a calming, redemptive effect on the soul. That effect compels us to create ...

Many of our muskegs are dotted with small ponds that are wonderful microcosms; I like to prowl around them, just to see what is going on there, at least among some of the larger forms of life. The ...

An ecosystem is an environment that includes soil, water, air, nutrients, sunlight, climate plus all of the organisms that live in that environment. An ecosystem is about interactions. The organisms ...

This helicopter, owned by Hummingbirds Helicopters Inc. of Valley Center, was recently conducting an aerial assault on mosquito larvae in ponds along the San Diego River. This particular chopper was ...

Vernal ponds are a unique habitat favored by some amphibians The wild space housing the vernal ponds is located in Pittsford Despite holding water for months at a time, vernal ponds are not good ...