The Kansas Outback

     A few posts ago, I brought up the issue of what seems to be unnecessary roadside mowing.  A friend and colleague classes such over-ambi...

     This summer is one which may pose some serious problems for wildlife.  Just as a severe winter may impose harsh setbacks for some speci...

Yes, it could be out of a Hitchcock movie.  But, some of the coolest wildlife spectacles don't always happen in the outback.  Sometimes ...

  I believe there is no better solution to Nature Deficit Disorder, coined by Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods , then a small...

     It's hot--a bit abnormally hot but then again we are still generally warming from the last ice age.  The real question is if this l...

Yes, we are growing roadrunners at our place.  While we had one failed nest a couple months ago which I believe was depredated by crows, we ...

We finally received a nice rain.  So with some grandkids here, we went herping.  Finding a nice-sized slider was a treat on this 4th of July...