Wild animals are often exposed to dangerous situations that can result in injury and/ or death. Collisions with motor vehicles are a very common example of this, but there are others too. Fights with another individual, whether of the same species or not, is another. Running through areas of downed trees or in rocky areas can result in a leg […]

The last column introduced faithful readers to Scientific and Natural Areas operated by the state’s Department of Natural Resources in the Arrowhead. Now we look at some detail on the ones nearest Highway 61. Less Wondering may result. Before we do that, consider this already broken news: WTIP reports that “Cook County is one step closer to having another state […]

I always thought of the world as kind of divided into two camps: Us and Them. And I was always on Team Us. Because I’m Us, not Them. I’ve never been Them. I had friends who were Them. Well, okay. It was just one friend, Matt, who was Team Them but still. Anyway… then something dramatic happened. It was big. […]

These are the things that the human eye cannot see. The individual primary feathers of the mallard duck in flight. Either wing individually of the ruby-throated hummingbird in flight. The purple-blue secondary feathers, like dark stained-glass, when the hen mallard, quacking, stretches her wings on the water in the fog before the dawn. The black ruff tufts of the male […]