When the Most Common Native Plants become No Longer Common in our Wild Areas
In my line of work, I engage in extensive, if casual, surveying of native flora in the wild areas of Northern Virginia. For nearly twenty...
Our Local Forest Communities Need More Native Trees
This particular standing of Maple-Leaf Viburnum is now decimated by Bradford Pears. Some years ago, we worked with NPS in DC to create...
My Favorite Local Wild Areas in Spring
Photo: Carex jamesii on the floodplain slope. See the Common Hackberry trunk? This has been an exceptionally brilliant spring. With cool...
A "Don't Know" Attitude
(This was written in response to one of my spiritual friends' question why what we believe shouldn't matter much.) I happened to turn on...
