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PublishedOctober 30, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The Great Heat Pump Adventure, Part 2
Columnist Dana Wilde details a multi-year journey of figuring out how best to heat his home, from a 'Frankenstein monster' setup to mixed results with heat pump technology.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Adventures in staying warm
Dana Wilde says it can be a struggle to heat a home efficiently in Maine — if one is being mindful of carbon emissions.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Backyard critters make their presence known through summer, fall
The chipmunks, mice, and red and gray squirrels have been bolder the last few summers, as the cat Brian’s years caught up with him, he passed away the first of October, a few days after his 17th birthday, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A vote for September
Usually such beautiful days are an escape from political ugliness, Dana Wildes writes.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The decline of the Unity park
The neglect of a local park is a visible symbol of the social and economics draining of a community, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The woods and The Singularity
Columnist Dana Wilde talks about the prediction that supercomputers will simulate layer after layer of human mindwork so completely that they will essentially become conscious beings.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The presence of absence
'(The phoebes') absence is hard to describe,' writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Phases of climate change denial
Columnist Dana Wilde breaks down decades of denial of global warming, the resulting climate change and the destructive effects that human activities are having on the Earth.
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PublishedJuly 24, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: The spiders in the mailbox
This is the season in Maine when spiders are most active, and when you're most likely to see one, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A garter snake slithers into view
Dana Wilde recalls a recent encounter his grandson had with a snake and the discussion that followed about whether to keep the reptile or set it free.
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