Nature
Here are the Hill Country Observer’s articles about nature, listed from newest to oldest. In the country, the living world of our forests, mountains and lakes influence our communities and our daily lives. The Hull Country Observer explores stories of the environment and the landscape in a changing climate.
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Issue: August 2011
Art for the birds
By STACEY MORRIS Contributing writer GLENS FALLS, N.Y. An art exhibit next month at Crandall Public Library will help to protect the population of short-eared owls, northern harriers and other raptors that depend on the Washington County Grasslands, a 13,000-acre network of farm fields that has been threatened with development. The juried art show, Birds read more
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Issue: August 2011
Markets with a mission
Food co-ops expand their reach – and goals – around the region They did far better than that. By the time of its official grand opening on July 23, the co-op, with its old-fashioned barrels of bulk goods and signature 1950s appliances, had signed up 213 members. Those members paid either an annual $20 fee read more
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Issue: June 2011
States work to save the last bats
White-nose illness demands ‘radical’ steps, some say By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer Five years after the first dead bats were found in a cave west of Albany, the disease known as white-nose syndrome has killed off most of the region’s hibernating bats. The situation has gotten so dire that wildlife officials in Vermont and New read more