Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Coral Fungi and Others
Many interesting mushrooms popped up in the yard, woods and fields during the wet hot weather this fall. Colorful Amanitas with yellow spots on the […]
Nature Niche
Nature Fact & Photo by Ann N. Mass
Lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun. The surface temperature of sun is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit and a bolt of lightning […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Guardabosque Esteban
Fall is a good time to plant trees. Here, I am known as Ranger Steve. When I took middle school students to Costa Rica from […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: What about those Mosquitoes?
Have you experienced this many mosquitoes in the neighborhood as have been present this month? Usually September is free of most biting insects and a […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Everybody is Doing Something
Katydids did. Crickets chirp, Chickadees dee dee, doves coo, squirrels chatter, chipmunks cluck, butterflies flash color, bees probe flowers, aphids cluster, ants carry things, moles […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: The Sun Clock
Another ranger naturalist did not carry a watch. To be on time to lead guided walks, Steve Carlisle used the sun to tell time. He […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Window View
As evening settled in, I knelt like a kid on the couch and drifted into the wild outside my window. The sun had set but […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Campfire
Sparks fly and crackle over quiet conversation. Colored flames mesmerize. S’mores are meant for eating in the dimness of glowing coals. Escaped fires are frightening […]