Oak Wilt Preventionby Ranger Steve Mueller Winter is a time of reprieve from the spread of oak wilt pandemic disease until April. In the spring and summer simple efforts will slow the spread of the illness. Oak wilt is caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fagacearum transferred across the ocean. It is spreading through oak forests by […] Continue reading "Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche – Oak Wilt Prevention"
RANGER STEVE’S NATURE NICHE Home Grown Natural Communitiesby Ranger Steve Mueller The Great Lakes Ecosystem is a broad term that includes 76 component natural communities within the boundaries of Michigan. A brief definition of natural community is an assemblage of plants, animals, and other life that live in similar environmental conditions governed by natural processes […] Continue reading "Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Homegrown Natural Communities"
National Monuments Reinstatedby Ranger Steve Mueller Before I was born, advocates working to protect fragile and easily damaged resources were encouraging Congress to protect them for public posterity. Others were desiring Congress make public resources private. Such Congressional issues are usually addressed in committees and frequently do not get to the floor for action for […] Continue reading "Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: National Monuments Reinstated"
RANGER STEVE’S NATURE NICHE Golden Fields By Ranger Steve Mueller The field will soon be gold with value exceeding that of gold metal. Fields transforms in their own way without the aid of a forger pounding and engraving gold. Golden fields lift one’s spirits and hopes. Unlike the engravings made by metal artisans, fields are […] Continue reading "Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche: Golden Fields"
Records Check Finds 66 Butterfly Species By Ranger Steve Mueller Fifty-three field notebooks and journals hold my field study natural history data. Until 2010 I recorded observations with paper with pencil. I made the switch to entering information to a Word document on computer in November 2009. Slowly I am transcribing older handwritten entries to […] Continue reading "Ranger Steve’s Nature Niche"
