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Nourishing relationships with nature. Registration for Summer Camps. Earth Path's Nature School programs give youth an opportunity to explore, play, create, and adventure outdoors within a caring, nature-based community, one day a week. Through child-centered, experiential learning, our goal is to help nurture creativity, self-confidence, and respect for each other, while sharing practical skills and knowledge about the natural world. Many influences inspire our approach, including the Forest School.
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Wild Burlington: August 2014
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014. The end of summer is the time of the insects! I've been watching the dogbane sprout up new shoots, flower, and finally go to seed over the past three months. Because they're a particularly noxious plant (toxic to almost all vertebrates and many vertebrates - they're related to milkweed which is infamous for its implications for monarch caterpillars. Dogbane is a notorious weed in the midwest, largely because it doesn't have any natural pests that control its population. Lack the...
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Wild Burlington: June 2013
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Saturday, June 22, 2013. Paddling an actual Great Lake. Rough outline of trip ( 75 miles total). I cut my teeth lake paddling on Lake Champlain, but by Great Lake standards it just ain't the same as real lake paddling (Lake Champlain has been recognized as a Great Lake by Bill Clinton. And later "unrecognized" by Leahy and congress. In the lake). Their flight was quiet and mirrored the stillness of the lake. I was transfixed. Because Chicago gets its drinking water from the lake, the Chicago River, which...
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Wild Burlington: Dichotomous key (VII.d) - The world of internodes cont'd (Adornment)
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Dichotomous key (VII.d) - The world of internodes cont'd (Adornment). Adornment - thorny parts. A twig at its most basic form, is rather helpless against predators. Fortunately, trees do not leave them unaided. For example, sap can contain a range of chemical defenses (like the toxic orange sap of staghorn sumac) - this is particularly prominent later in spring when the sap gets, as they say in the sugaring world, buddy; I've written about that previously. Derive from the epide...
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Wild Burlington: April 2014
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Saturday, April 5, 2014. Sapsuckers and sap flow. There are a lot of origin stories about the human discovery of maple sugaring. I'll bet almost all of them are false and created many generations after humans were utilizing syrup. I've got three bets for how humans discovered sugaring:. I've watched red squirrels chew little notches in branches of sugar and red maples. I've also watched them return and lick off the sap from bark later. Black walnut with drill holes from sapsucker. Please support our blog.
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Wild Burlington: July 2014
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Robber fly eating a small white moth. I've had the fortune of seeing quite a few robber flies this year (I first discovered these guys two summers ago. Though seemingly nondescript, they're among the most gruesome of all predators. Relying on surprise, robber - or assassin - flies, lay in wait for an unsuspecting prey to come along and then ambush them, taking the insect out of midair. Friday, July 18, 2014. Peregrines at Rock Point. Over the past few months we've been able to w...
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Wild Burlington: May 2015
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Rock Point inventory: Brick's Brook. The wet meadow, this is the "headwaters" of Brick's Brook. At the edge of the meadow, it starts to cut into the soils. About 25 down from previous photo, excessive erosion exposing roots of white pine. Which once upon a time was a fence line as witnessed by the barbed wire embedded in it). Further still downstream. Slopes of banks still steep. Near the bottom, mellow grade to the brook and shallow slope to the banks due to erosion over time.