Just because you've plucked all your garden's fruits and veggies and watered your flowers for the last time doesn't mean your gardening job is over. It's time to start harvesting seeds. While it's ...

CHEBOYGAN — It was a perfect day to harvest. The sun shone on research assistants tucked back in a wetland in Cheboygan's Gordon Turner Park on the shores of Lake Huron drove an amphibious combine ...

One of the more common wetland plants in our area that everyone seems to know are cattails. The scientific nomenclature for the common or broad leaf cattail is Typha latifolia. A now very common, ...

Across California, a tremendous dusting of cattail seeds announces the approach of winter. Equipped with conspicuous fluffy tails that hitch long-distance rides on any wind gust, the microscopic seeds ...

Laced throughout the Champlain Valley there are wetlands full of cattails. Beneath the tall grass-like leaves there are thousands of pounds of food and standing above the roots there is a potential ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...