Helping a Student in Minnesota

Environmental and biological teaching outreach comes from the most unexpected places. I do not know how a teacher/principal in Minnesota found my blog but he did and this is the outreach opportunity. An email arrived via my blog asking me for skull identification help. The science teacher recounted that he had a student who visited…

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Riveting River Ride – My Book Review

THE BONES OF AMORET by ARTHUR HERBERT Genre: Mystery /Suspense Publisher: Stitched Smile Publications Date of Publication: April 1, 2022 Number of Pages: 323 pages  Scroll down for Giveaway! In this enigmatic follow up to his critically acclaimed debut novel The Cuts that Cure, Arthur Herbert returns to the Texas-Mexico border with this saga of…

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Converting from Paper to Digital for Wildlife Data

Sharing a part of my research process of camera trapping that I have conducted since 2015.  Camera trapping means more than going through images captured on cameras. With each photo from all the cameras, it entails noting the number of animals, types of animals, frequency of animals, as well as weather patterns.  I am able…

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Taking My Breath Away – My Book Review

ODD BIRDS by SEVERO PEREZ Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Texas Christian University Press Date of Publication: September 24, 2019 Number of Pages: 278 pages  Scroll for Giveaway! The year is 1961. Seventy-year-old Cosimo Infante Cano, a Cuban-born artist in need of inspiration, follows his lover to Texas in what was to be a temporary sabbatical…

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