Author Archives: hw7

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Lyme disease and vaccines One of the things I don’t miss about Pennsylvania are the ticks and the tick-bourn diseases like Lyme disease. Colorado does … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Spotted Owls and Barred Owls I remember the conflict very well. The back and forth in the late 1980’s of charges and countercharges between logging … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …    Silent flight When I was a graduate student at Ohio State in the late 1970’s, I took a course entitled ”Forest Biometry.” The course … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Chemicals from plants, dragons and more Plants used to be an almost exclusive source of pharmacological chemicals for humans to treat or prevent illnesses or … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Earwigs I have to admit, like most people, I have given earwigs very little thought. I mean their name “earwig” has led to some off-the-wall … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Ecology of nut trees Part 2 Pecans are the sixth-most abundant dietary nut in the world. In 2022/2023, 0.164 million metric tons of pecans were … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Ecology of nut trees Part 1 Looking at tree nuts (and peanuts) it’s important to recognize that growing these crops, like growing any crop, requires … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Dietary nuts and seeds Including nuts as a part of a healthy diet is an idea strongly supported by nutrition scientists.  In 2003 the “Food … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Cicadas are coming This has been a Spring of spectacular events. First we had a total solar eclipse (on April 8) that stretched from western … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Florida 5 Manatees It’s hard to say why certain animals are compelling and  charismatic. Seeing a moose cutting across your hiking trail, seeing a cougar … Continue reading →