Life
Natural History Dispatch: The wild world of wasps
Lying here in the sun, listening to the faint hum of our honeybees come and go, it would…
Tom Butler
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Natural History Dispatch: By any name, the cougar impresses
A friend and I were sweating it up a mountain trail a couple of weeks ago, complaining about…
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Natural HIstory Dispatch: Don’t overlook opossums
Eeeeeyaaaaaa! Yaaaaaaa! Betty, come quick! Fido’s got a dead rat on the porch! It’s huuuuge!”
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Natural History Dispatch: Embracing the bigleaf maple
Editor’s note: To see enormous bigleaf maples locally, go west across the bridge in Railroad Bridge Park.
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Natural History Dispatch: Sizing up the peninsula’s black bear
Don’t let the cartoon image of the bumbling bear fool you. That’s only in Hollywood. Watch closely and…
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Natural History Dispatch: The fascinating fisher
If the wolverine was the weasel family’s bid for world domination, its cousin the fisher is the ninja…
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Natural History Dispatch: The curious life of the hare
You wouldn’t think it, but a brown hare sitting stock still in your garden is amazingly hard to…
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Natural History Dispatch: Where does the fat go?
Let’s see. The fridge is stocked with butter and sour cream. The cupboard is full of sugar, salt…
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Natural History Dispatch: Life of the nimble Douglas squirrel
Up close I can hear the rough snicketing sound of claws and teeth on skin when they fall…