Outdoors column: March into this month listening and looking
March really does have a chance to become my favorite month, perhaps because it is full of promise.
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Outdoors column: Winter’s cold has many redeeming qualities
Cold weather can be good for us, wildlife, gardens and the crops we grow in the Midwest.
Outdoors column: Joys and pitfalls of feeding birds in winter
Bird-feeding, if done properly, can help these birds survive.
Outdoors column: Take advantage of nature’s free gift of snow
It’s not your imagination that it’s quieter when snow falls. It’s a scientific phenomenon.
Outdoors column: Be thankful for fallen leaves
The Xerces Society says, “Leaves are habitat, not trash.”
Outdoors column: Snow birds are harbingers of winter
What I love most about juncos is that even a casual nature watcher can find them, and enjoy their spritely antics on a dreary day.
Outdoors column: Shrubs, understory trees colorful in autumn
Horticulturist Michael Dirr, author of “Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs,” calls the hues “shades of fluorescent pink and rose-red to grape-juice purple-red.”
Outdoors column: Black walnuts make squirrels happy
On October hikes, I must be careful not to step on the sticky, green-husked nuts strewn along sidewalks.
Outdoors column: Yard plant inventory yields joys, surprises
Fall is a good time to do an inventory because some flowers are still blooming, and those that are past their prime still can be identified by leaf shape and...
Outdoors column: Nuthatch may be here for the winter
It’s called an irruptive species because it leaves its north woods home in late summer to fly south if the foods it eats, seeds from coniferous trees, are scarce.