If you can go to the Amazon, the antarctic or the Galápagos, by all means do so. But when you get back, you need not stop your explorations simply because you happen to live in an asphalt jungle. In ...

Listening to a sizeable mob of American crows vocally harassing a great horned owl, I got to thinking about birds and other wildlife then about Life in general and eventually about my own life in ...

The first class of trainees for the fledgling Texas Master Naturalist program met in San Antonio in 1997. Chapters have since multiplied to 44 across Texas and spread to 25 states. This remarkable ...

What does a wildlife naturalist’s day actually look like? From dawn prep to reading pugmarks and educating tourists, three Bandhavgarh naturalists reveal life inside India’s forests.

Members of the Ho-Chunk nation in Wisconsin are part of an effort to widen the circle of professionals and volunteers tending to the earth and passing along their knowledge to others. Call them nature ...

For the past two years, many folks have been in an uncertain place…not knowing what comes next in our crazy world of pandemics, extreme weather, and isolation. If you have felt that way, you are not ...

Gale Monson was a child when he discovered his life's passion. On long afternoons sitting silently in a field on his family's farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota, Monson realized he wanted to ...

Long before Bob Thomas founded the Louisiana Master Naturalist Association, he grew up in central Louisiana, wandering the woods and waterways for snakes, frogs and bugs. "It was a wonderful place for ...