NEONICOTINOIDS AND UPPER MISS ECOLOGY
La Crosse Tribune, Winona Daily News. Jan 4, 2025.
Now that President Biden has officially designated the bald eagle as our national bird, we can honor its legacy and ban neonicotinoid pesticides
CONTROL PESTICIDES, NOT PELICANS
Clinton Telegraph Herald Nov. 3, 2023
Pesticides like neonicotinoids endanger the Mississippi River, not the consumption of fish by white pelicans.
CITIZEN SCIENCE AND NATURE’S SOLACE
Red-headed Woodpecker story in MINNPOST, November 2, 2021.
“Red-headed woodpeckers have declined 95% in Minnesota since 1970, the largest loss in any state or Canadian province…North America has lost 29% of its birds since 1970, according to a study published in the journal Science in 2019. The continent’s population has dropped by 2.9 billion adult birds…”
Bea’s Bench Trempealeau Refuge
Red-headed woodpeckers, Covid-19 – Wisconsin State Journal, April 19 2020
This commentary appeared in The Wisconsin State Journal, La Crosse Tribune, Winona Daily News and Red-headed Woodpecker Recovery Project Newsletter during spring 2020
A Walk Through a Flood of Song
Breeding Bird Census, upper Mississippi River, Gloria Mundi Press, April 22 2003
In June in southern Minnesota, the pearly gloss of dawn creeps across the Mississippi about 4 a.m. A mile wide, the river easy slowly…
Cerulean Warbler: Down But Not Out
Birder’s World – June 1998
The song came from the top of a cottonwood tree towering through a small gap in the dim, green light of the forest canopy…
Red-Shouldered Hawk
Birdwatcher’s Digest, January/February, 2004
The Stubby gray shape hung two or three inches over the edge of the nest of sticks and was absolutely motionless. The nest was deep in a floodplain forest…
Wood Thrush Deep Woods Serenade
Birder’s World, June 1997
A sudden burst of notes leaped into the dusk, a flute-like “ee-o-lay” followed by a slower, bell-like trill. The song echoed against a steep hill across a creek…
TURNING NO-MAN-LAND’S INTO A NATURE PRESERVE
Story copyrighted by Big River Magazine, Pamela Eyden, All Rights Reserved
The preservation of Aghaming’s nature and Richie’s involvement, courtesy of Big River Magazine May-June 2018.
PASSENGER PIGEON WALKS
The Mississippi River Revival sponsored newspaper columns and spring walks, advocating to protect Aghaming Park and Preserve, 1,000+ acres of wetland (backwater) habitat used by the red-shouldered hawk and other declining wildlife species.
