Lynn Foster
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This month, Arkansas forests are full of black bear cubs, but you probably won’t see them.
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This month, sandhill cranes, Antigone canadensis, are traveling from the southern United States and Mexico to their summer breeding grounds.
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In the winter forest, the wild cry of the pileated woodpecker seems to travel farther through the bare branches of the trees.
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In April, the parsley hawthorn blooms and we see its delicate white flowers with scarlet anthers. They attract bees and small flies, the hawthorn’s…
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Do you know Arkansas’s native woodpecker species? Have you seen them? Here’s an introduction to four of them.The red cockaded woodpecker is the scarcest,…
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My yard has a winter visitor. For the last several days, I’ve watched a yellow bellied sapsucker outside my window.From less than two feet away, I’ve seen…
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In the spring, tent caterpillars build tents around the nodes of young leaves and feed on these leaves, particularly on wild cherry trees. But at this…
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Three small wafer ash trees grew in a yard, planted to be host plants for butterflies. This year, in mid-August, a giant swallowtail butterfly mother laid…
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The Bigleaf Magnolia has the largest flowers—more than a foot across—and the largest entire leaves—up to three feet long—of any Arkansas native tree. It…