Jan 25, 2021 My son, wise beyond his years it would seem, taught me an invaluable lesson when he was a teenager living at home. Any time I got worked into a froth about a broken car, leaky roof or other serious, but non- cataclysmic setback, he’d put things in perspective for me: Pops, it could always be worse - you could be on fire.
This is a good model to apply to invasive species. Depending on the situation, they can wreak some genuine havoc, but sometimes the perception of danger is so far overblown that other problems ensue. It’s important to place an issue in the proper scale, beyond the fact that we are hopefully not surrounded by flames at the moment.
Bob Beyfuss: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a doe
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The Other 364 Days of the Year. Photo: U.S. Geological Survey
Dec 18, 2020 Reindeer have been soaring since long before Christmas came into being. For some reason, the fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria), a lovely red-and-white polka-dotted ‘shroom bearing an uncanny resemblance to a Christmas ornament, is attractive to these creatures. It’s also hallucinogenic, and Comet, Cupid, and loads of other blitzed reindeer have been observed lurching about after munching the mushrooms (Santa’s sleigh makes more sense after you learn about this little reindeer game). Regrettably, flights of any sort will become less frequent for these animals, as their population is in steep decline as a result of a warmer Arctic.
Dec 15, 2020 by Paul Hetzler (Naturalist) , in Val-des-Monts, QC
Arianne Wilson ties her self-cut Christmas tree atop the family car at Moody Farms in Saranac Lake. Archive Photo of the Day: Brit Hanson
Dec 15, 2020
The morning of December 25 this year will be a lot less cheery unless the World Health Organization gives Santa a free pass on COVID-19 restrictions so he can hand out presents to billions of kids on Christmas Eve night. As it is, many people feel like cheer is at low ebb. Local authorities in my area strongly recommend we celebrate the holidays in our respective households; no visitors. Yikes! Looks like Christmas 2020 will have to run on memories – bad news for me, as I forget where I put the keys two minutes after setting them down.