As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...

Heading into our first major snowstorm of the season, with winter truly beginning to set in and warmth at a premium, my kids and I decided to try to light fires only using flint and steel. We said we ...

Cattails are one of the most common wild foods. But it never occurred to me to actually eat them until I saw the young, pale, green-and-white, leek-shaped shoots at the Thursday Market in the South ...

Good looks can be deceiving. It is that way for the flowering plant purple loosestrife. When you see wetlands covered with magenta expanses of these spiked perennials, you might think how wonderful ...

If you dare, take a peek at the reality TV test of human survival skills on "Naked And Afraid." On each show a man and a woman must greet each other buck naked to begin their 21 day struggle to stay ...

Cattails are the iconic swamp plant; most of us know that when we see cattails growing along a road or at the end of a meadow there will be the squishy muck of a marsh beneath. In the depths of winter ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...