Spring is certainly one of my favorite times of the year for a variety of reasons. Not only are the flowers and trees blooming, the songbirds singing, and the spring peepers peeping, but the turkeys are gobbling as well! I’ve enjoyed some special times in the woods the last couple…
A few months back I was visiting with Bob Gochenour about some of our shared ancestors. As we talked about what life must have been like for them, he told me a story from when he surveyed a plot of land for the US Forest Service in West Virginia. The…
Most readers have probably heard of the killer bees that arrived in the US in 1990. This Africanized honey bee is a cross between the East African Lowland honey bee and different European honey bee subspecies. In 1957, 26 swarms of the African bees escaped quarantine and began moving northward…
Next week is often referred to as Holy Week because of all that took place within it. According to the Gospel writers, many events transpired within a very short span of time including Jesus’s weeping over Jerusalem, His Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday, His clearing of the Temple, His teachings…
As the temperatures warm up, many are returning to the woods and the waters. Youth season for turkeys is this weekend and many have been pulling trout out of valley creeks for weeks. Along with mulching, these too are annual rites of springtime. Although Dad didn’t mount nearly as many…