Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Exploring
It is time to break free from our restrictive indoor dens to explore the lengthening days outside. Twelve hours of light and darkness signal lengthening […]
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Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Distance Disappears
John Muir wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” The Great Lake […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Morning’s First Arrivals
Does the early bird get the worm? I recorded the order bird species arrived at feeders or flew through the sanctuary one morning between 7 […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Christmas Bird Count 2018
Correction: This article was originally published with the incorrect date for the next Christmas Bird Count. The Bird Count will be 28 Dec 2019. […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Insect Growth
Kids change as they grow. Some change more than others. Monarch butterflies are worm-like creatures when they’re kids but as adults they have bright orange […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Armchair Naturalist
I am becoming more of an armchair naturalist and I expect other senior nature explorers are finding that necessary. I appreciate the inquiries and well […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Birds Collide with Buildings
Nearly one billion birds are estimated to die annually by colliding with building windows. Gathering definitive data is a monumental task. Scientists have two ways […]
Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Insects in Winter
Winter active insects have different nature niche adaptations for getting warm compared to birds or mammals. Reptiles and amphibians are inactive in winter as are […]