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The Beauty in Nature: Burrowing Rodents

Details: Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber

Though not closely related, woodchucks and muskrats are adaptable rodents that have traits in common. Both species are native to much of North America, including southeastern Pennsylvania.

The Beauty in Nature: A Variety of Voles

Details: 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

Details: Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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

Details: Written by Melinda Myers Melinda Myers

Every gardener, new or experienced, appreciates tools to help them better enjoy their hobby.

The Beauty in Nature: Crabeater and Weddell Seals

Details: Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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

Details: Written by Melinda Myers Melinda Myers

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: 2 Sphinx Moths

Details: Written by Clyde McMillan-Gamber Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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.