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23 December, 2025 My body has a way of giving out when granted an extended break in the school year - always a not-so-subtle reminder that working with kids is hard . As expected, this winter break has been no exception, bringing me body aches and a persistent cough. However, the warm sunny weather on the fourth day of break was simply too pleasant to not get outside. I could not and did not resist, selecting a dry prairie a short walk from a 19th century cemetery in Primrose

It was the 27th of November, and the Keweenaw Peninsula had just received its first blizzard of the winter. The cabin in which my family was staying had regained its power a few hours earlier, but it had yet to be plowed out of the more than two feet of snow which had fallen in the previous 36 hours. Luckily the amount of powder was of no concern to Anna's Subaru Outback, which had already braved our inadvisable decision to drive it through 170 miles of blizzard conditions on

Southcentral Wisconsin - June 8th, 2025 Over the weekend, a small group of Wisconsin botanists gathered to test out the concept of a...