Through Handlens and Binoculars

On 6-7 October 2010, I was in central Indiana (Hamilton County) helping one of my coworkers monitor a mitigation wetland. As recently as jus...

For the past several years, Lindsay and I would join Brian Miller of South Bend-Elkhart Audubon Society for a fall camping trip to Indiana ...

Translated to Latin, "barking dog" is Canis latrans ... we call the mammal represented by this name a Coyote. At the time of Europ...

In my previous two posts, I discussed the plant communities and some of the plants present in three of northeastern Indiana's highest ...

As promised in my previous post , this entry will focus on some of the plants that Nate Simons and I saw while touring some of the fen prese...

This past Saturday morning, I had the opportunity to visit three of northeastern Indiana's best fen preserves with Nate Simons of Blue H...

I had hoped to be able to post about the St. Joseph County Parks - Spicer Lake BioBlitz that took place this past Saturday, but because the ...

There are not many places that I can go where I can't find a way to quench my botanical thirst. Let me take that back... I don't thi...

Arguably one of the most common and widespread plants on the planet is Common Reed ( Phragmites australis ), a large grass (up to 15 feet ta...