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Nature’s best hope is us!

Nature’s best hope is us!

A new year is a new beginning. We can give nature a new beginning, by reducing 10% of our lawn. Lawn/turfgrass now covers more than 40 million acres, more than twice all state parks, state forest, and wildlife management areas combined. Unfortunately the area we call...

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Disappearing prairie birds

Disappearing prairie birds

It wasn’t long ago I could hear a variety of prairie birds’ singing when I ventured out to a prairie. Lately I noticed… silence. I learned that we actually lost over 50% of prairie birds (720 million) since 1970. In fact, we lost 3 billion birds since 1970...

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Photographing butterfly eggs

Photographing butterfly eggs

As a photographer, I often ask myself why I continue pursuing certain images. It was 15 years ago when I first attempted to photograph a butterfly's egg. It didn't turn out well. I was so disappointed.  Perhaps, I didn't have enough knowledge of my craft and did not...

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