Exploring & Preserving Maryland's Natural Treasures
Often referred to as “living fossils”, horseshoe crabs have inhabited the Earth’s water for nearly half a billion years. They have survived all of our planet’s recorded mass extinctions, witnessed the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and have done it all while maintaining more or less the same body plan. It’s easy to assume […]
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Love them or hate them, rats are inescapable. In this New Scientist Non-Fiction Book of the Year Joe Shute explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with the rat. He travels the world from sub-Saharan Africa to the Rocky Mountains and visits some of the most rodent-infested cities on earth to unpick the myths we […]
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Maryland’s State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) outlines strategic approaches for conserving wildlife and key habitats. As a federal mandate, this document is revised every 10 years to account for changes in conservation needs and address emerging threats. This online presentation by Beth Schlimm of the MD DNR will outline important components of the SWAP that […]
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Ethan Bean of the US Army Corps of Engineers will discuss a shipwreck found in the Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay. The legislative framework of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, within which federal agencies operate, will also be explained. In 2019, as part of the Wolf Trap Alternate Placement Site Northern […]
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NHSM Fossil Club members are once again invited to Centralia, PA, to hunt for plant fossils. Centralia was a small coal mining community in central PA that had to be abandoned after the coal beds under it caught fire in the 1960s. Today nothing is left but the streets and sidewalks and some cemeteries. The […]
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So you’ve found a moth or a butterfly and were able to identify it to species. Congratulations! Could you go one step further and determine its sex? For many species of Lepidoptera, the males and females look alike, and the sex can only be determined via genitalic dissection or examination of the hindwing/forewing coupling. For […]
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Ensuring the health of pet reptiles goes beyond proper diet and habitat — it includes routine parasite screening. At this meeting of the NHSM Herp Club, Tyler France will cover the importance of fecal smear and fecal float analysis, how it benefits reptile owners, and how The Chameleon Collective services make parasite checks more accessible. […]
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Fossil Club members are invited once again to participate in this ever-popular NHSM event! Among the most important fossil research sites in the Mid-Atlantic region, Stratford Cliffs were formed when land replaced an ancient sea. Fossils found here are from the Miocene Epoch, approximately 17 to 10 million years ago, and indicate an ancient sea […]
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Recent discoveries at a site in Reisterstown suggest that Ice Age hunter-gatherers inhabited what is now Baltimore County, crafting tools from local stone, which they then carried with them throughout the region. This online presentation by Zachary Singer will provide an overview of the Paleoindian Period (13,000-10,000 years before present) in Maryland based on data […]
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An anthropologist who followed Brazilian indigenous movements for more than 20 years looks back and forth. Linda Rabben is an author, a sociocultural anthropologist and a human rights activist. For more than 30 years she did research on and in Brazil for NGOs, including Amnesty International and the Rainforest Foundation, and published two books on […]
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