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 the world’s twenty-six species. The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensus) and the fox squirrel (Sciurus niger) are common in the eastern and southern U.S., while the western U.S. hosts the…

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…

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.”