Executive Director’s Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #46 The life of a naturalist is filled with exploration, discovery, and wonder. The moments that leave a mark in one’s psyche tell stories that […]
Executive Director’s Blog Entry #45 This past weekend I went with my wife to a family friends’ gathering. There were some 15 people there, including a couple of children. All […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #44 – Earth Day – April 22, 2021 When I became a practicing conservation biologist, I knew I was transforming my focus from the creatures I loved […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #43 Well, it probably won’t get much weirder than this blog entry. However, in my defense, there are a few hundred people around the world (OK, maybe […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #42 When I was growing up, my family would spend a couple of weeks of our summer vacation in a rental beach house on the Caribbean coast […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #41 What do Beyonce, former President Barack Obama, the Grateful Dead, and Leonardo DaVinci have in common? They all have had species named after them. Taxonomists, scientists […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #40 “Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.” Edward Abbey The gentleman stood quietly away from the crowd of kids playing in […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #39 “A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #38 In April 1996, entomologist David Wagner collected a medium-sized dragonfly male adult at La Selva Biological Station. He was researching the distribution of several species of […]
Sheltering-in-Place Blog Entry #37 The road to the newly erected small field station deep into the Children’s Eternal Rainforest Preserve, in central Costa Rica, was rough and muddy. It was […]