Storm on the Bay

Yesterday afternoon, fed by warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico, thunderstorms began to form east of Sarasota Bay; their slate-gray base...

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Greeted by Storms & Kites

After some hiking in the Cumberland Plateau, we continued southward toward our condo on Longboat Key, Florida.  Approaching the Tampa area, ...

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Lookout Mountain of the Southeast

Like the Allegheny Front in western Pennsylvania, Lookout Mountain, which stretches from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Gadsden, Alabama, repres...

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Grundy Forest Natural Area

Driving southeast on Interstate 24, one encounters the first ridges of the Appalachian Plateau (known in Tennessee as the Cumberland Plateau...

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The Nature of Soldiers

Throughout human history, young men and women have been the fodder for war.  Whether they volunteered or were drafted into service, they hav...

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Cattle Egrets in the U.S.

Though cattle egrets were first observed in North America in the 1940s and were breeding here by the early 1950s (see Global Egret ). they a...

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Mountain Plovers

The only thing "mountain" about mountain plovers is that they summer and breed in the Mountain Time Zone.  Preferring short-grass ...

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