This strange, dark, mild winter (so far) has been mostly unremarkable in the yards of both my home and work. There are birds, to be sure, but mostly those of […]
Ripples 3/17/22
by Kennedy Zittel, Assistant Naturalist While out walking through the woods, a familiar song was heard in the surrounding trees… “Cheeseburger!” Guess what that means…spring is near! What does […]
Ripples 1/27/22
With the recent cold weather its hard to remember that we are now 2/3rd’s of the way through the worst of winter. This time of year, with cold and viruses […]
Ripples 11/19/20
This week many of us will experience November in a Wisconsin woodland from a deer stand. It is a time that people look forward to an excuse to spend quiet […]
Ripples 2/21/19
All too often we are confined to our workspaces, eyes fixed on computer monitors until we can hardly see anything else. And when we’re not, we’ve got our eyes glued […]
Ripples 2/14/19
I am well on my way to becoming an “old timer,” although I’ve only been called that once by a student when I was visiting my daughter at UW-Madison. Once, […]



