The Science Behind Nature - in Layperson Speak
This is from a friend of mine, Denise Morse, a fellow defender of the environment. We served together on a land trust board in Alpine CA. She writes about Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mountain Sky Island – a wildlife haven outside Tucson that is facing a new copper mineby Denise Morse I …
Continue Reading about If Nature Could Really Speak: Challenges to Sky Island
I have a follow-up post on this subject here with a further discussion and bibliography with Dr. Hayes and another here on more recent research by Dr. Erika Nowak. We were up at a Big Bear concert a couple weekends ago, which was sponsored by the San Bernardino National Forest Association (great …
Continue Reading about Rattlesnakes! Relocating Them Works Just Fine….
About a month ago, I got a letter in the mail from a termite company, Terminix, which began with the following: "Ants can be more harmful to your family than you think. That's because these monsters (and others, like cockroaches may carry more than a dozen kinds of bacteria, like strep and staph. …
We were at our San Diego home and one of our renter's cats caught a baby snake (which we of course saved) - and it got me thinking about the baby snakes joining the baby birds, rabbits and other mammals being born as spring ramps into full-time. I checked in with Dr. William Hayes, a herpetologist …
Continue Reading about It’s Springtime for Baby Rattlers and Other Snakes
(Updated Aug 2018) Acquaintances of ours were over at our house the other night and when they asked if we wanted to see a photo of the rattlesnake they found on their property, I thought to myself ‘they probably killed it.’ Yep, they did. It was a good 4-plus feet long, so likely had lived many …
Continue Reading about Some Truths about Rattlesnakes (and myth debunking)
