by Kathie Driscoll | Jan 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Winter Mindset by Josh Palumbo, Forest Management Coordinator. Winter arrived in earnest this year with temperatures plummeting low into the teens for much of early December. Shrinking daylight and plummeting temperatures are the stark realities of winter in the...
by Kathie Driscoll | Jan 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Most Wonderful Legacy by Josh Palumbo, Forest Management Coordinator. When I arrived from upstate New York to work in the lovely Blue Ridge Mountains, the first Nature Foundation volunteer I met was Chip Morgan. Arriving with a love for trees and a limited...
by Kathie Driscoll | Oct 27, 2024 | Nine-Minute Naturalist
The art of predicting the future and the name Nostradamus are forever linked. The 16th century astrologer and physician became famous for his book, The Prophecies. Nostradamus tended to hedge his prophecies by predicting general events such as natural disasters that...
by Kathie Driscoll | Oct 23, 2024 | Nine-Minute Naturalist
Running The Roads by Josh Palumbo, Forest Management Coordinator. My path to work recently has brought me past dozens of squirrels each day with their mouth on the asphalt. While squirrels in the road is a constant in the eastern United States, these squirrels seem...
by Kathie Driscoll | Oct 16, 2024 | Nine-Minute Naturalist
Having a dramatic rise in elevation from home to work makes it clear that the peak of color is almost here. With the peak of color comes the urge is rising to be outside enjoying the crisp weather and the vibrant colors that make Wintergreen’s forest so spectacular....
