Many new TMNs shy away from the Latin names of plants. I remember whining, “Why can’t we use the common name for this? I don’t know how to pronounce that.”
Author: Justin Case
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The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is host to Citizen Science Project FeederWatch. I have participated in this program for several years now and find it very rewarding.
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by Linda Butcher Meteors are believed to originate in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They are a solid piece of material that survives
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by Julia Jorgensen Descendants of ancient rodents, tree squirrels are found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. North America is home to eight of
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by Alejandra Gomez I have always been fascinated by frogs! It was in my early, formative years of junior high school, where I was introduced
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by Maria Reyna-Gomez On Saturday, November 21. 2020, members of our Rio Grande Valley Chapter participated in a beach cleanup at Boca Chica Beach. Several