by Kathie Driscoll | Jan 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Merry Mistletoe by Josh Palumbo, Forest Management Coordinator. As the husband of a music teacher and choir director, the Christmas season tends to start earlier than most for me and my household. I fight hard to keep my celebration of the Christmas season to post...
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...
