This article in the NY Times offers a fun, thought-provoking twist on the perennial question “how do you decide what condition to restore a site to?” It is mostly about work being done at the La Brea Tar Pits in…
Very interesting photos of floating log ecosystems at a small lake in Michigan.From @sponge_research, via Twitter: “Found these really neat free floating log ecosystems in one of the lakes we sample. Pitcher plants, sundews and other stuff. Lake was filled…
“The most beautiful gardens I have ever seen are pristine coral reefs in the South Pacific. They are artifices, created by coral, transforming oceanic deserts into the richest biotic environments in the world. They are also benign, bountiful, and orderly.…