Third Season Takes Aim at Aquatic Invasive Species and Promotes Water Quality in the A2A Twelve stewards were hired and trained to cover over 30 boat and car-top launches across four counties, where they worked to teach the public . . . Shannon Walter
High Reindeer If not for a fungus, Santa’s flying sleigh would be grounded. If that were the case, the only toys he could distribute would be to the elves who made them in the first place . . . Paul Hetzler
Winter Duck Hunt on Grindstone Island It was two days before Christmas in the early 1950’s. I was up at 4 am, dressed and out of the cellar door with my flashlight in hand. I headed to the boat house . . . Manley L. Rusho
A Mangy Fox In the spring, six cubs were born on a hill below our house, and we were secretly watching them grow . . . Danuta (Dee) Sedkowski
Beyond Animals The idea that one could plant a garden of tree-pod birds and vine-lambs, maybe even a cabbage-patch kid, seemed rational to men who fancied themselves the smartest people in the world. Paul Hetzler
The Giving Tree . . . Although elms are still present in our forests, Dutch elm disease, which has the appropriate acronym “DED,” now kills them before they can reach maturity. Paul Hetzler
The River Gal’s Galley - with tomatoes Beefsteak, early girls, cherry, yup it’s prime picking when it comes to tomatoes from this River gal’s garden!. . . . Nicole Hartshorn
Secret Language of Mushrooms It’s old news that fungi transfer information chemically under the ground. This new discovery suggests that as fungi decompose wood, they might also be composing sonnets, love-poems, or grocery lists . . . Paul Hetzler
The 2022 Kenneth Deedy Environmental Steward Shares Her Journey When I received the call from TILT that I was invited to be this year’s Kenneth Deedy, Environmental Steward, I was beyond excited! As the Deedy Steward I would spend time at three different nonprofits, . . . Sara Lantier
1940’s Summer Haying Starting in late June and usually the entire month of July, daylight was consumed with the hay harvest on the farm. The fields that had been set aside for growing hay were cut and the hay was placed on wagons and hauled into the barn. Manley L. Rusho
Daycare Forests Research on the health benefits of being in a forest environment is so compelling that urban daycares in Finland “built” forests for kids to use. Paul Hetzler
Guilty As Charged! Crossing the northern border is no laughing matter. Some time ago, I had an experience that has really stayed with me . . . Michael Laprade
The Giant Joro Spider First your car catches fire, and then your house. Worse yet, your date kills you and devours your flesh without so much as an apology. Yeah, spiders are creepy , , , Paul Hetzler
