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By Adrienne Provenzano In the 1920’s, Gene Stratton-Porter shifted her life and work more and more to California. Still, she was never too far from the Limberlost, and all of her Hoosier homes, in heart and mind. In 1923, the author selected and edited excerpts from several of her Indiana nature studies and published themContinue reading “A Christmas Camera and A Book Called Wings”

By Adrienne Provenzano Reading the November 6th and 11th postings on the Friends of the Limberlost Facebook Page about the December 2nd Wabash River Watershed clean-up event supported by a grant from the Wabash River Heritage Corridor Commission, with assistance from the Friends of the Limberlost, brought to mind an exhibit I attended this fallContinue reading “On the Banks of the Wabash”

By Adrienne Provenzano Last December’s artic blast got me thinking and reading about Indiana’s geologic post–especially that most recent Ice Age that covered the top two-thirds of the state with ice as thick as a mile and drew to a close about 10,000 years ago. That was a time when mega-mammals like wooly mammoths andContinue reading “Ice Age Reflections”

By Adrienne Provenzano I sometimes think that the other months were constituted mainly as a fitting interlude between Octobers,” wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold (1886 – 1948) in his classic work, A Sand County Almanac. Born in Iowa and later living in Wisconsin for most of the second half of his life, Leopold experienced the cycleContinue reading “Frosty October”

By Adrienne Provenzano April 22 marks another celebration of Earth Day – an annual event started in 1970. While NASA did not create the event, the agency provides many free resources for Earth day activities. Here are a few links that you might want to check out! All day on April 22, from 10 a.Continue reading “NASA Events and Resources for Earth Day 2022”

By Curt Burnette Gene Stratton-Porter was known as “The Bird Woman”. It was a nickname she acquired as a child when her other called her “the little Bird Woman”, and it stuck with her for the rest of her life. A feature article in a 1904 Muncie newspaper was titled “The Bird Woman of theContinue reading “Wherein is revealed the two types of birds for which the Bird Woman had no love”

By Curt Burnette Strange days. They began in May. A bold and colorful bird was spotted in the Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve on the Jay County side of County Line Road. This yellow and black bird was a male yellow-headed blackbird, a handsome western U. S. relative of our red-winged blackbird. These birds are veryContinue reading “Wherein strange days occur in the Land of the Limberlost”

By Kimberley Roll Kimberley Roll and her husband Jeff and friend Greg McCallister participated in the SANJO CBC (Southern Adams Northern Jay Ouabache Christmas Bird Count) on January 1. Their territory was the Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve. January 1 was a mild day with temperatures in the 40s F but there was fog in theContinue reading “Christmas Bird Count 2022”

By Terri Gorney Lehman The Cardinal Chapter of the Indiana Audubon Society was formed March 17, 1948. The chapter was named for Gene Stratton-Porter’s first book, “Song of the Cardinal.” By the 1980s, it was known as the Cardinal Club. Members were mostly from Berne and Geneva. The first officers in the organization were Mrs.Continue reading “Where In We Examine Early Christmas Bird Counts”

By Vena Hare Vena Hare has been regularly hiking Rainbow Bend and Bottom and photographing her adventures. Vena has the patience and persistence of Gene Stratton-Porter with photographing birds. Warblers are some of the hardest birds to photograph as they move quickly in the foliage and they are usually at the tops of the trees.Continue reading “Warblers of Rainbow Bottom”