Among the finest votes of confidence I’ve received: a biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources assured me I would clearly be able to accomplish grand things in my future, because I had managed to turn my sample collection into a family vacation. That’s right, I convinced my parents and sister to leave the comfortable southern warmth of Arkansas and travel to northern Illinois (in December!) to collect bits of deer tissue from hunter check stations, so that I would have plenty of samples for the analysis of deer population genetic patterns relative to the CWD-infected zone in the Midwest.
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Highlights
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Hard farming in the high country
It’s hard to imagine the person power involved in forming and farming terraced gardens around 5,000+ ft elevation, on slopes reaching 60 degree angles!
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Ancient religions rise out of the thin air of Kathmandu
Ask a Nepali whether he/she is Hindu or Buddhist, and the answer you are likely to get is simply “yes”.
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Yum Luquillo
It’s easy to eat like a tourist at the Latin fusion gastro pubs of Old San Juan. It’s fun to eat like a local at the kiskos in Luquillo.
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Saps Making Syrup
As the cold Midwestern winter gives way to crisp spring chill, the sap starts flowing and the saps make for the maple forest.
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The Winter that Never Was…
A long winter without snow, part of a long trend of warming in the Midwest.
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