Written by Jennifer Powell, Land Management Coordinator for Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Coordinator for the Lakeshore Invasive Species Management Area (LISMA). Many yellow flowers are popping up along roadside ditches this time of year. It seems like it is … Continue reading
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Written by naturalist intern, Erica Groelle I was asked to raise a few monarch caterpillars for an education program at the Dunes, so I decided that I should probably do a little research first and learned quite a lot … Continue reading
More and more I realize that the notion that my yard, or my house for that matter, is my own is a delusion. Although people dominate the world and the era we now live in is referred by some biologists … Continue reading
Written by naturalist intern Erica Groelle As I was weeding in the Butterfly Garden at the Nature Center one afternoon, I came across several earthworms and thought to myself, “what is an earthworm?” Earthworms are invertebrates, and their bodies contain several … Continue reading
Written by Alek Henseler, a naturalist intern at Woodland Dunes Late spring is a time marked by rebirth of the animal world, so I should have not been surprised when I startled a mother Ruffed Grouse that had been laying … Continue reading