What child can resist an up-close inspection of lightning bugs?
David Wasmuth
For Earth Day, teaching moments in Crane Park
Pollinators, native species highlighted at celebration.
Plan to promote native plants on Montclair property moves ahead
The act would mandate 70% of plantings on public property be native to the mid Atlantic and northeast regions.
Montclair butterfly release a colorful call for sustainability (PHOTOS)
Environmentalists call for biodiversity, reductions in lawns.
What’s in your backyard: engineering groundhogs
Groundhogs look cuddly, but they are detailed engineers, with a somewhat complicated social life, writes David Wasmuth in “What’s In Your Backyard.”
It’s the Roaring ’20s, for chipmunks
Thanks to a Mast year for oaks (many acorns!), this is a boom year for chipmunks. Here’s a bit about their ways.
What’s in your backyard: skunks and the scent of summer
The shy skunk in your backyard would really rather not spray you, according to David Wasmuth, in his column for “What’s in Your Backyard.”
What’s in your backyard: a hawk fills the sky
In the debut of “What’s in your backyard,” Sanford Sorkin describes becoming a birder, and spotting the red-tailed and sharp-skinned hawk.