by Lindsay Pollard-Post In my neighborhood, I’m known as the “animal person.” People ask me for help and advice on everything from getting a lost dog back home safely to identifying the species of frog they heard croaking the night before. This time of year, I can count on ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Humans impact wild animals in several ways. Some can be modified to lower those impacts. Others cannot be changed. Here are just a few of the unusual ways we impact the lives of wild creatures. Natural gas exploration has gone up a great deal in recent ...
By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com This week at the West Virginia Botanic Garden, we take a diversion to discuss the intricacies of plant-insect interactions. Plants are critical to many insect species since they serve as host plants for immature larval development. Some of ...
by Claire Latané During the pandemic, schools across the country turned themselves inside out, holding classes outdoors to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. And now that vaccination is driving down transmission rates, school administrators are eager to get students back in the ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL We are becoming an urbanized society. In fact, by 2050, over 65% of all humans will live in urban and suburban areas. At the same time, coyotes are becoming more common in those same areas. This leads to a number of questions. To get at some of this, I ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL Around 20 years ago, we started to hear a lot about “bird friendly” coffee. What precipitated this was the knowledge that most shade-grown coffee systems were being converted to full-sun plantations because it increased coffee yields. For example, ...