Apr 8, 2021
Tim Galati, a senior at Southwestern Central School, has been awarded the 2021 Ryan Exline Memorial Scholarship by the Audubon Community Nature Center.
Every spring since 2003 Audubon Community Nature Center education staff have raised scholarship funds through their Birdathon on the first Saturday in May. Participants look for as many species as possible and generous supporters pledge an amount, either per species or in total.
For the first time, this year’s birdathon extends over nine days, from May 1 to May 9. Amounts raised above the $500 for the Ryan Exline Memorial Scholarship will go toward the Pamela A. Westrom Wildlife Habitat now under construction.
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Even the largest trees rely on tiny decomposers to provide them with nutrients to grow.
By CHELSEA JANDREAU
At the junction of summer and fall, there is a month or so when the mucky fields of skunk cabbage that flourished and made the wetland floors verdant and lush seem to disappear entirely.
However, if you look closely, you will begin to notice tiny purple-striped sprouts where those leafy greens once stood. Each year the skunk cabbage will die back, but they do not just evaporate into thin air. Like many plants, they will decompose and create fertile soil for the next generation to grow in.
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