What is Rainscaping?  Rainscaping is the practice of designing landscapes to capture, absorb, and use rainwater where it falls. Rather than sending water off-site through storm drains, the water slows down, spreads across the landscape, and soaks into the soil.  In Indiana, spring often brings

“Hold back the day/that the stars and dragonflies/fall from the sky—Ken Tennessen ***** Do you see them? Belmont Prairie Nature Preserve, Downers Grove, IL. (2019) It’s that time …

“Mystery whispered in the grass…at evening on the prairies.” — Sherwood Anderson **** It’s hot. So hot I think my eyelids are sweating. Jeff and I are at Loda Cemetery…

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” —Albert Einstein ***** A golden “Full Pink Micromoon” rose in the east Saturday just after dark. It w…

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“In winter, nature is a cabinet of curiosities, full of dried specimens, in their natural order and position.”–Henry David Thoreau ******* Welcome to the “Midwest Deep Freez…

The USFWS announced its intention to list the monarch butterfly as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, a much-anticipated move that will have major implications for land management and develo...

“All you need is love.”—John Lennon and Paul McCartney ****** Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and so is the season of training dragonfly citizen scientists for a …