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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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PublishedJune 26, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: A really big spider sends us scrambling
A fishing spider found on a basement floor got the columnist and his grandson looking for a jar big enough to contain it, writes Dana Wilde.
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PublishedJune 12, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Painted turtles know just where to go
This is the time of the year when turtles are on the move, Dana Wilde writes.
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PublishedMay 22, 2024
Backyard Naturalist: Wolf spiders discovered on one of the first bug-, toad- and frog-finding missions of the spring
Are wolf spiders scary because of their name or because they are spiders? Dana Wilde writes
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