Windblown

Windblown

By Chelsea Jandreau, Nature Educator The snow hasn’t stuck around for very long lately, but the blustering winds remain strong. Wind, of all speeds and coming from any direction, can affect all living things, but when it enters gale warning territory, trees get the...
Words

Words

By Katie Finch, Senior Nature Educator An article came out this week that 566 new words were added to dictionaries this year. In addition, 2,604 existing words received new or updated definitions. Adding new words is a sign of a healthy language. As our society...
Animals and Us  

Animals and Us  

By Katie Finch , Senior Nature Educator Audubon educators are in schools several days a week teaching nature-based lessons at this time of year, working hard to tie the lessons to topics or skills students are learning in their classrooms. To do this, I was...
Happy Birthday, Roger

Happy Birthday, Roger

By Jeff Tome When I first started working at Audubon, people often talked about how Roger would have loved this or that. They talked about his passion and support for Audubon, and how much they missed him. As a new employee, I assumed that they were talking about a...
Sassafras

Sassafras

By Emma Roth, Nature Educator We are in the throes of summer camp at Audubon Community Nature Center. As such, I have been spending a lot of my time outdoors. The past two weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to work with our two specialty camps: Into the Woods, where we...
Wildflowers love Hunters

Wildflowers love Hunters

Wildflowers love Hunters By Jeff Tome There is a trail in Crawford County, Pa that has an amazing number of wildflowers. I wish I knew the name of it, but can only ever remember what everyone I know calls it: “Rachel Lane”. My wife, the Rachel of Rachel Lane, hiked...