ecology
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Hemidactylum verdigris was first identified as an isolated hibernating colony uprooted by early spring construction in the northern Appalachian mountains. The bright blue bellies and tails of the salamanders prompted the workers to assume they had hit a shallow copper vein until the copper began to drop tails and sluggishly scatter around the scoop of…
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My thoughts go towards food, immediately. I grew up with a southern mother, so it’s ingrained into me that being a good host means feeding your guests. Offer drinks. No one who enters my home goes hungry. This goes for my community as well. I’ve been enamored with the idea of food forests since I…
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I was ten years old. Tired, with a plate of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets on the plate in front of me in a bar after four days of camping in the woods. The TV showed a newscast, an aerial shot of a small boat on the water and a headline: “Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter, Dead at…
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Four years ago, I trekked through dense pinyon-juniper forests on behalf of the United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM). We were trying to assess plant community recovery and fire management following three thinning techniques: mulching, controlled burns, and selective removal. They had no control plots, but this isn’t about their shoddy experimental design, or…
from the pen of icarus blake 