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Mowing Tips: How to avoid killing Eastern Box Turtles
DOCUMENTING SIGHTINGS Please document any Eastern box Turtle sighting for CTDEEP; photograph the upper and undershell, and also the habitat. Note note the date and location. The DEEP reporting form can be downloaded from the Endangered Species Section of the … Continue reading
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Water Woes on Drumlins
Water Woes on Drumlins Posted on January 21, 2012 by sigrungadwa What is a drumlin anyway? A gremlin with an aptitude for percussion? Seriously, a rounded, elongated hill in the Connecticut landscape is probably a “drumlin”. The best known is … Continue reading
The Red Menace
Euonymus alata, also known as burning bush, is at least a clear-cut villain, unlike some of the other invasives. I recall spending a long June day collecting vegetation data in an an immense Euonymus thicket, a former estate in Wilton. … Continue reading
Origins of the Traprock Ridges
The extensive ridgetop hiking trails in central Connecticut are fairly well known, with their fine views, blueberries, and sunflowers, e.g the trails on East Rock, West Rock, Mount Higby, the Hanging Hills, Cathole Mountain, and Ragged Mountain. However, remarkably few … Continue reading
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Rose Maze
Yesterday at dusk I was near downtown Wilton, at the site of a future apartment building. I was trying to get out of an approximately 2-acre thicket of invasive shrubs and vines, after characterizing them. It was raining hard, so … Continue reading
Milky Spore Mystery
In about 1990 we applied Milky Spore to our lawn, just once, in the fall, after several years of trapping Japanese beetles in funnel shaped plastic bags with flower-scented lures. I’ll never forget the sickly sweet smell after it rained, … Continue reading
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Ailing from Indoor Air Pollution? Go Outside!
This afternoon I heard on public radio (Faith Middleton Show) that health problems from indoor air pollution are worst in the most energy efficient, air-tight homes (LEED- certified). I also heard that on average Americans spend less than 95% of … Continue reading
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Zig-zag Dog Walks
When walking my dog Mackie in our tidy, suburban neighborhood, I zigzag back and forth across the street, trying to avoid lawns that are aggressively chemical-treated, as Mackie is always “nose to the ground” unless he hears something of interest … Continue reading
Turtle Hibernation Habitat? Soils Data Needed
It would be very helpful to consulting ecologists like me, if more information were available on the characteristics of habitats (soil textures, canopy cover, moisture levels, depths, slope aspects) that are used for hibernation and nesting of the various turtle species … Continue reading
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