Dana Wilde lives in Troy. His writings on Maine’s natural world are collected in “The Other End of the Driveway,” available from online booksellers or by contacting the author at [email protected]. Backyard Naturalist appears the second and fourth Thursdays each month.
Latest columns
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This month is an astonishing revelation if you know where to look, as angles of light point us toward cosmic truth, Dana Wilde writes.
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While the world closes down in November, beauty knells up through the tamarack branches on the edge of bogs and winter, writes Dana Wilde.
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In October comes a certain slant of light that seems to rise up out of some unseen spot of time and gather itself, and head south, writes Dana Wilde.
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It's too late to completely halt the destructive impact of climate change, but it's not too late to lessen the damage if we act now, Dana Wilde writes.
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I still don’t know what will deter us from driving headlong into self-destruction by climate change, writes Dana Wilde.
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Blue jays are tricksters who know what they’re doing, and also what they’re talking about, writes Dana Wilde.
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Little did we know in June that a veritable summer colony of nursery web spider families was setting up in the garden, writes Dana Wilde.
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I don’t know what else to do except to keep pointing to facts from the real world, writes Dana Wilde.
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Buttonbush blossom is a natural miracle you can see performed every year, writes Dana Wilde.
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Orbweaving spiders perceive the world mainly through vibrations of silk and air, parallel to the way we perceive the world mainly through light and sound, writes Dana Wilde.
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Sometimes I get chills when my mind homes in on the fact that spiders are sentient, writes Dana Wilde.
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Every kind of suffering and joy seems upon us here in early summer, writes Dana Wilde.
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If you can’t remember ticks being much of a problem when you were a kid, it’s because they weren’t, writes Dana Wilde.
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While the coronavirus has your attention, a more catastrophic threat to the human race — climate change — continues to boil along in the background, writes Dana Wilde.
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Astrobiologists seem to just waiting for the very last piece of the 10,000-piece puzzle to tell us that there is, or at least has been, life on Mars, Dana Wilde writes.
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Seismologists who spend their days listening to the Earth for signs of tremors and quakes have noticed pronounced downturns in noise levels during the pandemic, writes Dana Wilde.
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The pandemic could subside during the summer, there could be a vaccine we can all get, but get yourself ready mentally, because this could be a really long haul, writes Dana Wilde.
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The coronavirus is an unavoidable natural disaster that can be lessened by deliberate, rational behavior and self-discipline, writes Dana Wilde.
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Since 1970, North America’s bird population has decreased by about 30%, with nearly 3 billion birds that used to be in the woods, grasslands and shore now gone, writes Dana Wilde.
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More and more people are recognizing the reality of effects on the environment by looking at the data right before their eyes, writes Dana Wilde.
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