August 4th, 2026

More about prairie chicken research in the Central Sands of Wisconsin during the 40s and 50s; I'm reading parts of My Double Life; Memoirs of a Naturalist by Frances Hamerstrom; today the chapter  'Evolution of the Chicken Blind'. She and her husband Frederick were...

July 30th, 2026

Poet Karen Nystrom wonders at the language of ravens and her poem of the same name, RAVENS.

July 28th, 2026

More adventures with the Hamerstroms; I'm reading from My Double Life; Memoirs of a Naturalist by Frances Hamerstrom.  The focus today is the work they did feeding, housing and teaching  volunteers ('boomers') who arrived at their farm house each spring  to...