Lisa Hutchins
Oct 6, 20232 min read
Noise and Vandalism
This guy. For the last two nights, this lovesick fellow has been just outside our house bugling all night long, seriously disturbing my...
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Lisa Hutchins
Jul 23, 20232 min read
How the Collared Dove Conquered America
As I write this in late July, a pair of Eurasian collared doves are calling in my backyard. They've raised a family in the trees behind...
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Lisa Hutchins
Jul 10, 20231 min read
Horse Takes a Sabbatical for Eight Years, Returns Home as if Nothing Happened
Photo by the Bureau of Land Management via Wikipedia You have to love this story. Eight years ago, Shane Adams of Utah was camping in the...
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Lisa Hutchins
Sep 29, 20222 min read
Why Do So Many Native Grasses Have that Strange "Muhly" Name?
Portrait of supreme grass expert, Gotthilf Muhlenberg Living in the American West, you soon realize that a large number of native...
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Lisa Hutchins
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Fall Proceeds Apace
Wistful seeing the last of summer's hummingbirds on the tattered remains of wild monarda in our rain garden (Monarda fistulosa, also...
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