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Learn the story of rocks and paleontology at ACNC 1st Friday Dec. 2

At Audubon Community Nature Center’s Dec. 2 First Friday Lunch Bunch, Emma Roth will present “Wondrous Rocks,” sharing her adventures and the often over-romanticized field of paleontology. A nature educator at Audubon, Roth has a degree from Smith College in Geological Sciences and ...

Water, water everywhere

As I drove from downtown Jamestown towards my home, I was well aware of the potential obstacle I was about to face. It had been raining all day and quite heavily for the past few hours. My chosen path was leading me towards a wetland near the Chadakoin River. When it pours for a long period of ...

Death is important, natural, and surrounds us daily

By SARAH HATFIELD Audubon Community Nature Center Education Coordinator We think of autumn as a time of harvest and brilliant color, a time when we can start to read more books and slow down and not feel so guilty doing so. Some might think of it as the ‘waiting room’ of the ...

Enjoy mums for the moment

As we all enjoy the beautiful fall mums we have purchased in our Garden Centers it is only natural that the thrifty among us would like to know if they can be planted in our gardens and enjoyed next fall. The simple answer is probably not. The mums purchased from our garden centers with ...

A pup’s nose view of the neighborhood

There are things in life that shake everything up. These events hit your life like an earthquake, shaking things apart and rebuilding life in unanticipated ways. For me, those events included marriage, having kids and, now, getting a puppy. If you are one of the people that has had to suffer ...

The smells of nature hold memories of seasons past

A few days ago, I was walking down the street when suddenly I was suddenly transported to my grandparents’ house. I wasn’t there physically; my grandparents lived a few hundred miles away from where I was standing and sold that house over a decade ago. In my mind, however, I was instantly transported there. It was a smell that sent me to that happy place. I don’t know what the smell is, and it’s one I’ve been hunting down for years. There must have been a plant growing in my grandparents’ garden that released that distinct scent. Whenever I get a whiff of that smell, no ...