Lights Out for Local Wildlife

How darkness benefits our native wildlife The United States at night, via a Google Earth satellite image. When you look at earth from a satellite...

Monarchs and Milkweed are a gateway to learning about other host plants

Tired of hearing about how to help the imperiled monarch butterfly yet? Yeah, me neither. We have a long way to go to restore the...

Spring Cleaning: Bird Baths, Feeders, and Houses

Photo by Peter Pearsall, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As spring approaches, you may be thinking about clearing the clutter out of your home and...

Native Plants for Holiday Decorating

A holly tree branch, photographed by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / Wikimedia. As the holiday season approaches, you may be thinking about how to brighten up...

Where Babies and Birds Play

How to Make a Nature Play Area at Home A child plays at Nessa’s Young’uns child care center in East Flat Rock. When Vanessa Gilliam...

Beautiful blooms, but Multiflora Rose brings native plants to their doom

Volunteers clean up Multiflora Rose in April along the Oklawaha Greenway By Sarah Sussman, Conserving Carolina Americorps habitat restoration associate What is Multiflora Rose? There...

A Wild Space for Our Young Family

Grass is not the enemy, but at my house, it wasn’t doing anybody any favors. My name is Pat Barcas, I’ll be serving with Americorps...

Holes in Your Leaves? No Problem!

A ragweed plant is peppered with tiny holes, most likely from a grasshopper. Growing up, I associated the presence of holes in plants to be...

Discovering Our Native Butterflies!

Take a tour of a NC milkweed farm to see beautiful native butterflies and caterpillars. Learn how to spot monarchs and spicebush and pipevine swallowtails.