Image Source: Pexels Conservation science is vital to the protection of the environment in the communities that we call home. In Maryland, where 16 out of our 23 counties border the Chesapeake and its tributaries, conservation science plays a necessary role in the health and safety of all living things in the region. Understanding the […]
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How Conservation Scientists Benefit the Maryland Area
Natural Dyeing with Kitchen Scraps
I’ve been saving onion skins for about 3 months. It amounted to about 3 pounds of onion skins! This could have taken way more time if onions weren’t a staple ingredient in my cooking. Why was I saving onion skins? Well, to start with, they dry out and don’t spoil so easily, so it is […]
Now More than Ever, the Healing Path of Sit Spot
That large tree succumbing to gravity was an event that took place at the periphery of my consciousness. I passed by this spot in the park most days. I might have seen the park maintainers cutting its branches and hauling them away. It was winter, and green was gone from most of the trees. As […]
NHSM Photo Safari Scavenger Hunt Stories
I moved to Maryland in February for my first job after finishing graduate school in Alabama. It was already a big change before COVID shut everything down. In mid-August, I was up late scrolling on Facebook when I saw a post about the NHSM fossil raffle. I started looking into the NHSM page where I […]
Venomous Snakes of Maryland
Summer time means more people are hitting the trails, loading up the RV or driving to one of Maryland’s many parks and campgrounds. Snakes can be a commonly encountered animal on the trail, identifying species can be difficult for those not used to seeing the variety of native snakes in Maryland. Maryland is home to […]
What does it mean to love nature, anyway?
I don’t see myself in Outdoor magazine. Or on outdoor Instagrams with blonde White women with messy buns in pictures posing during a throughhike. I don’t see myself in the narrative that to be an outdoorsy person you should know how to pitch a tent with your eyes closed and not mind how hard the […]
The Foraged Berries Series: How to Identify and Harvest Wineberries
This year, there is particular comfort in the markings of the seasons that have stayed the same. June (and July!) is told by berries–mulberries, juneberries, wineberries, strawberries, blueberries. When you know how to look, you can see the abundance everywhere in Maryland– the city, suburbs, and countryside. In our second blog post of this series, […]