Tag: Blog post
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Reflections on the Domain
A piece on Sewanee students’ sense of place for Dr. David Haskell‘s Environmental and Biological Nonfiction class at Sewanee. For my open-ended experiment, I chose to interview four seniors about their favorite place on campus. I wanted to come to understand how Sewanee’s Domain affects its students. It’s rare for a university to have space…
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The Poison That’s Silencing the Call of the Loon
An article by the Northeastern Naturalist digs into the causes of lead poisoning in loons around New England and paves the way for conservationists and everyday people to make small changes that may help save these beautiful birds. Across New England, lakes are dotted with these birds. They bob on the surface, slip underwater, pop up across…
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Mountain Watch, AMC’s Citizen Science Initiative, Goes High-Tech With iNaturalist
The next time you visit the White Mountain National Forest, you may notice more phones than usual in the woods. No, cell service in the White Mountains didn’t magically improve. Any possible influx of photo-snapping and trail-texting is likely due to the iNaturalist app, newly integrated into AMC’s Mountain Watch program. Read more: https://www.outdoors.org/articles/inaturalist-amc-mountain-watch-citizen-science-climate-change 8 – temporarily…
Kelly Thomsen 