Nine-Minute Naturalist

Nine Minute Naturalist by Josh Palumbo Oak decline, emerald ash borer, hemlock wooly adelgid and a host of comorbidities such as old age has produced a forest with copious amounts of dead or dying trees. While not the ideal state, the death of a tree is the good...

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...

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...

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....

Everyone knows that one person after the first cool day of late summer declares the fall season has arrived. Decorations are retrieved from storage and displayed. Clothes begin to shift towards fleece and flannel. Pumpkin begins to be used in cooking and flavoring for...