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River Otters and More at the West Fork

Nature Notes        March 2021 by Linda Martinson, Blue Ridge Naturalist The West Fork of the French Broad … More

river otters

Winter Reading Recommendations

February 2021by Linda Martinson “Everything is connected, absolutely everything.” Sm’hayetsk Teresa Ryan, forest ecologist, The Mother Tree Project I read … More

Ben Okri, Code Girls, Linda Martinson, Liza Mundy, reading recommendations, Wild

Walkingsticks and More

August 2020 by Linda Martinson We had an exciting surprise one fine August morning: a walkingstick on our car door … More

walkingsticks

Mid-summer Musings

July 2020by Linda Martinson Following up with salamanders: I’ve tried a few times, but I haven’t been able to find … More

Ed Yong, red efts, rhododendron, salamander, sourwood, sourwood blosssoms, sourwood trees

Bats in the News

by Linda MartinsonApril 2020 Bats are in the news these days as the natural hosts of the virus SARS-CoV-2 which … More

bats, coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS, SARS-CoV-2

It Was a Mountain Laurel Spring

It Was a Mountain Laurel Spring by Linda Martinson  More likely it was due to favorable spring weather with lots … More

archive, laurel, mountain laurel

Fraser Magnolia Trees: Ancient Botanical Relics

May/June 2019    by Linda Martinson          Every year in May, the big magnolia tree behind our … More

Fraser Magnolia

Sourwood Trees

October 2018 by Linda Martinson “It must be the beginning of fall because the sourwood leaves have turned a brilliant … More

sourwood, sourwood trees

Holiday Gift & Winter Reading Ideas: Surprise! Nature Books

by Linda Martinson, Blue Ridge Naturalist  Does anyone else feel that the year has flown by? But undaunted by a … More

Winter musing about weather, hibernating and opossums

by Linda Martinson, Blue Ridge Naturalist We often have interesting weather in Western North Carolina. One day this month, during … More

bears, black bears, opposums, winter hibernation

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