The real European Black Slug, however, is not as frightening. Their tacky slime is as bad as it gets. So, what do you have to do to get a group of high school kids excited about slugs? Not much, surprisingly. After we set up camp along a meadow, above a rocky Read more…
When I was told I’d be helping lead a Chugach Children’s Forest expedition of high school students into the wilderness, I was more than a little nervous, to be honest. I hadn’t really been around kids that age, since I was a kid that age, and I was going out on this Read more…
I reach my right hand over to the areas of my back where it aches… just behind both shoulders. Who would have thought that two gallons of herbicide weighed so much? Actually, it wasn’t so much the weight of the backpack sprayer, but more so the plastic pressed up against Read more…
I thought I knew a great deal about invasive species until I saw a nutria swim across a wetland at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. It was a gorgeous morning without a single cloud in the sky. And no, the immense flock of geese hovering over our heads was Read more…