
Nature Smart: Get to know the amazing black bear
We could see it moving through the tall, dull green grass of late summer, moving in our direction. I told our photography group to move back and prepare cameras. The bear was a big one.
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We could see it moving through the tall, dull green grass of late summer, moving in our direction. I told our photography group to move back and prepare cameras. The bear was a big one.

I spend a lot of time improving the habitat on my 30-acre lake property. The goal is to provide nesting opportunities for as many bird species as possible. For example, I have a great horned

It has been 17 years since I last wrote about the largest bird in North America. This is a species being brought back from the brink of extinction via some heroic captive breeding and reintroduction

Visiting Arizona in the middle of summer doesn’t seem like a smart idea.
The heat can be stifling, and it pushes any wildlife to be active only during the early mornings before the sun

There are a number of species that people don’t seem to like much, based on nothing other than our desire to assign blame. The double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum) is a classic example of a species

People love to group, label, and pigeon-hole what we see and experience around us in nature.
I believe it helps us to understand and organize in our brains the vast number of species with

There are many things we don’t understand in nature. We often make assumptions about the kinds of behaviors we see or witness in nature, and we often incorrectly attribute a specific animal behavior based on

Nature is always showing me new things. For 20 years, I have been spending up to four weeks on my boat, photographing and studying the nesting, egg laying, chick hatching, and raising of common loons.

Last week, while leading a photo workshop to photograph black bears in northern Minnesota, I was reminded once again that nature exemplifies diversity.
My small group of photographers was following a female black bear
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