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Wonderful article!  We have a summer house in upstate NY. and every year people are clear-cutting more trees to build houses. There must be more regulations to preserve the forests!  We hope it all turns for preservation, not destruction and greed.

I have caught two blue frogs, one in Jamaica State Park about 25 years ago which I have a photo of and one in Marlboro about 60 years ago. I also caught in Marlboro at about the same time a one eyed frog. Its one eye was in the center of its head cyclops style.  At the time my parents were concerned that these anomalies might be the result of nuclear testing fallout.

Beautifully evoked. I love science writing as meaning ful and thoughtful prose. Great work!
-Env educator and author of Changing Seasons in the Finger Lakes

fascinating look at life under the snow and ice.
thank you Brett.
Bridget

I’ve always only been interested in heavy metal and softball, never thought I’d be looking up why the leaves won’t fall from only one of my trees. I guess pushing 50 does settle you down and help you appreciate other interesting things lol. Great info from the article and the comments as well, thank you.

I really appreciate Art’s viewpoint regarding working forests. He says, “If it (forests) have value to us, then we’ll take care of it…” A strong and vibrant rural community depends upon forests and should be seen not as an opportunity to develop but rather an opportunity to earn a living and make a life. Thanks for making that point clear and simple Art.

Great story. Art, like you I spent my early years in the Connecticut woods
and I’m still out there. Like you I’m in my 70’s and from Waterbury CT. Small world !
Best regards,
Greg Gubitosi

I recently got one on my trail camera carrying a mouse. He was moving so fast that I slowed down the footage so everyone could see the Ermine.

Fun read. Thanks for the information!

Always enjoy reading these articles…keeping me aware of what is going on in my woodland surroundings.

I saw a brown long tailed weasel last winter…bounding across yard, under Forsythia…and through that thicket…to the other side where it jumped on a bantam rooster.  I had seen it from a distance and supposed it was a red squirrel…being the color it was…so was surprised when I reached the struggle with the rooster…to find it was a weasel in summer colors.

Great article, Susan. Sandy just saw an ermine last week diving into the wood pile on our porch!

I love watching mourning birds, but I have never seen one with anything but a white chest.. I am wondering how many types of them are there. And as this is February, it is refreshing to hear them, as in winter we usually only have sparrows and owls. The occasional woodpecker is heard and seen as well. I live in rural north western South Dakota. In the summer it is full of so many types of birds. Love em!

I love birds too and would love to take up nature photography

A deer’s vision advantage isn’t really about the ability to see color. Instead, it’s about detecting movement and seeing really well in low light.

Wonderful story on a great guy!

William Livingston, a professor at the University of Maine, said there s a great legacy behind the Herbie name. But it s also exciting to have trees that could have some resistance to Dutch elm disease, he said.

Very fitting that the students at John Faulkner School in Stoddard just finished reading Charlotte’s Web for the Book Pal program, reading that book, corresponding with adults in the community, and watching a drama presentation of Charlotte’s Web at the Concord Center for the Arts last Wednesday. I was delighted to be a part of this, re-reading the book for the first time in decades.

Great work big brother.  Your passionate love of nature has always impressed me.  Keep at it!

Adam

Thanks for spotlighting this personal friend and a true champion for the environment. He spends countless hours protecting piping plover nesting along the Sakonnet shore, hauls away trash by the truckload to keep it clean, and he never turns down an invitation to present dazzling slide shows of his incredible bird photography to environmental organizations, never taking a dime for it.

Thank you, Dr. McCabe, for your fascinating article (with Ms. Tyrol’s delightful illustration.) My first encounter with these arthropods was on a walk around Airport Park by Colchester Bog…when we noticed black footprints as retraced our steps on the way back to the parking lot. As the editor of the VT Entomological Society (VES) Newsletter, I have just finished compiling a memorial issue on Dr. Ross Bell for the Winter Newsletter which will soon be available at VermontInsects.org. I’ll definitely mention the springtail that was named after him in the Spring issue. Namaste, Naturalist Laurie DiCesare