If you can go to the Amazon, the antarctic or the Galápagos, by all means do so. But when you get back, you need not stop your explorations simply because you happen to live in an asphalt jungle. In ...

The first class of trainees for the fledgling Texas Master Naturalist program met in San Antonio in 1997. Chapters have since multiplied to 44 across Texas and spread to 25 states. This remarkable ...

Elizabeth Bradfield, professor of creative writing, is the author of five poetry books. When she isn’t publishing her stories or encouraging students to write their own, she can be found outside, ...

Held near the Berryessa Snow Mountain Monument, this certification program is designed to train citizens to become better ...

South African naturalist Adam Welz's new book, The End of Eden, examines how networks of life are unraveling as climate change escalates. Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In this story we ...

Something about fishes makes them fascinating to me. No matter what I do, they always find another way to swim through my life and they have done so since childhood. But during those early years I ...

Gale Monson was a child when he discovered his life's passion. On long afternoons sitting silently in a field on his family's farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, Monson realized he wanted to ...

For the past two years, many folks have been in an uncertain place…not knowing what comes next in our crazy world of pandemics, extreme weather, and isolation. If you have felt that way, you are not ...

When you’re a photographer, every day brings the unexpected. Case in point: My assignment at the Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park. Sign up here. Imagine a campground where people perform everyday tasks ...

Long before Bob Thomas founded the Louisiana Master Naturalist Association, he grew up in central Louisiana, wandering the woods and waterways for snakes, frogs and bugs. "It was a wonderful place for ...