Biodiversity—short for biological diversity—makes the world go round, powering the ecosystem that supports life.

MFNC’s November 3 speaker via Zoom, Alberto Suarez-Esteban—local farmer, instructor and researcher; a biologist by training and a passionate naturalist—knows well how disturbances change ecosystems.  As well as teaching “Ecosystem and Environmental Change” at Carleton Continue reading →

A Walk in my Home Place (excerpt from Caring for our Homeplace by Dr Gray Merriam) MMLT

Follow the river upstream. Across the exposed bedrock –gneiss and mica schist. Climb up the gentle slippery slope of the tiny batholith to the moss and lichen gardens in the open veins of Continue reading →

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We asked members to keep us in mind with photos over the summer. Ann Lambert shared a series of five that tell a fun story.

“My Hummer feeder was empty four mornings in a row,” reports Ann. “This was despite being filled up each evening. Nothing was out of Continue reading →