Outdoors

A good-sized ragweed can have 5,000 seed pods and releases about 1.25 million pollen grains a day and can travel up to 125 miles, warns columnist

Columnist is amazed wild turkeys have survived evolution for so long as 'dumb luck describes a turkey's lifestyle'

'Stop, stand still so they can pick an escape route, and stay standing still while they wander away,' columnist advises

Columnist takes you inside the Wildlife Summer Olympic Games that feature both crushing defeats and ultimate survivals

Just seeing a bat out in daylight may cause the jitters in some people, but fear not, says columnist, who urges people to become better informed

These scavengers weren't common here until 1970s, columnist explains

'Never had I experienced such an attack,' columnist says of recent outing to find wild berries

These days, one of the few options to find wild berries are along trails in parks, but there's a lot of competition, so we need to not be greedy, warns columnist

Raccoons in the attic! Sometimes, nature is not all it's cracked up to be, says columnist whose weekend took a turn, then another and another

'Being a well-prepared naturalist, my back-pocket notebook and pen came into play as each property was passed by,' columnist says of recent jaunt