Sumac and Goldenrod During this past week, the most notable color changes on our natural landscape have been provided by red leaves on...

Ripe Mountain Ash Berries We have now entered into the meteorological fall season with considerable evidence of that transition. It is a...

The changing colors seen in these silver maples is no doubt due to the stress of the high-water rather that the approaching fall season....

Cannon River today at 8.7 feet. Normal conditions in August would be 3 feet It wasn't all that many years ago that one could expect...

Conditions this summer have been ideal for cardinal flowers like this concentration in the silver maple bottomland forest adjacent to...

On Sunday July 25, local farmer Dan Tipke harvested his crop of winter rye from the field at the base of Rattlesnake Bluff. In recent...