Nature Done Wright
Incorporating the Celery Farm and Screech Owl Companion blogs
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World’s Most Amazing Fungus?
When I participated in a mushroom-foraging event at the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary on Saturday, one of the experts showed
Stalking Wild Mushrooms @ Slabsides
Headed up to the John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary in the southern Catskills last Saturday for an instant education in mushrooms
River Story Night: Sept. 23
I am pleased to be part of Bergen SWAN's Hackensack River Story Night next month. The fund-raising event will feature
Monday Morning Mystery 082718
I've seen a lot of dragonflies at the Celery Farm this summer. Can you I.D. this one?
Tonight’s Full Moon is A Sturgeon Moon
… and I finally put these stuffed fish to good use.
A Kiosk for High Mountain
It wasn't easy, jack-hammering four 20-inch-deep holes into solid basalt, then assembling a very complicated kiosk with a half-baked set
My Backyard Bird Photos on Line
The Record just created a slideshow of 10 of my favorite backyard birds. All the photos were taken in my
Turkey along Franklin Turnpike
Perhaps because Ben Franklin wanted to make them the national bird instead of the Bald Eagle, Wild Turkeys often try
Best Nature-friendly Project by a Dam Site
Several years ago, when I first heard that the New Jersey chapter of The Nature Conservancy planned to remove a
An 1899 Article about ‘Slab Sides’
The very first edition of "Bird Lore," published in 1899 and edited by Bergen County's own Frank Chapman, featured an

