Category: Dec2020
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“Nature’s Best Hope,” according to University of Delaware professor
Doug Tallamy, PhD, professor at the University of Delaware’s Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, and author of a recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope — Restoring Nature’s Relationships,” gave an outstanding presentation at the 2020 Virtual TMN meeting with workable ideas whereby he proposes that we can make our “combined yards” — across the nation — “into…
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More for Monarchs
by Diane Hall As I perused the list of sessions for the Virtual TMN Annual Conference, I was drawn like a monarch to milkweed when I saw the “Monarch Waystations for Texas” session by Carol Clark, Conservation Specialist for Monarch Watch and fellow Texas Master Naturalist. Having tagged monarchs in Iowa since 1999 and traveled…
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Enough Latin names to be a TMN
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.”
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Nature Finds Its Place
Have you ever struggled to grow a plant no matter how good the soil or how well you water? Doesn’t it seem nature has its own plans regardless of what we think?
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