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The Beauty in Nature: A Variety of Voles
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- Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber
When snow melts in fields, meadows, and roadsides in southeastern Pennsylvania, several winding, inch-wide trails through matted grass are exposed, revealing the presence of meadow voles, a kind of mouse.
The Beauty in Nature: Pitch Pines and Table Mountain Pines
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Pitch pines and table mountain pines are scrubby, picturesque trees that mostly inhabit poor, thin soil on dry, rocky ridges and slopes along the Appalachian Mountains.
Melinda’s Garden: Must-Have Gifts for Your Favorite Gardener
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Every gardener, new or experienced, appreciates tools to help them better enjoy their hobby.
The Beauty in Nature: Crabeater and Weddell Seals
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Crabeater and Weddell seals live abundantly in the southern oceans. Both species are incredibly admirable for being well adapted to living around Antarctica, a tough environment to call home.
Melinda’s Garden: Fall-Planted Cover Crops Provide Many Benefits to Gardens
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Put your garden to work over winter by planting a cover crop this fall. Covering the soil with plants that are turned into the soil or smothered and allowed to decompose in spring provides many benefits.
The Beauty in Nature: Antarctic Krill
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Several species of krill, which are crustaceans related to shrimp, crayfish, and crabs, are abundant in all oceans on Earth.
Melinda’s Garden: Keep Plants Thriving despite Summer Heat
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Last year’s record-high temperatures across much of the country took a toll on gardens and landscapes.
The Beauty in Nature: 2 Sphinx Moths
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About the size of a carpenter bee, a mysterious, 1.5-inch creature hovers like a hummingbird before flowers during the day and pokes its long proboscis into each bloom to sip nectar.
The Beauty in Nature: Upland Sandpipers
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- Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber
One afternoon, late in July, several years ago, I was driving on a country road in southern Lebanon County. Suddenly, a group of a dozen dove-sized birds flew swiftly and low across the road, close in front of me.