This creature can proudly claim to be the only of Ohio’s 4 species of tree squirrels that can ‘fly’ from tree to tree! That’s not all it can lay claim to. It is also the only nocturnal tree squirrel, the smallest, the most carnivorous, and in many forests is the most abundant in numbers, at times rivaling the eastern gray squirrel. This latter fact is often hard for people to believe since these small squirrels are never seen as often as the eastern gray squirrel due to their night time hours and covert behaviors.

Guest post from Gary Wyatt, Agroforestry Extension Educator, University of Minnesota Extension

This handy guide can help you identify non-native invasive plants on your property in Arizona and other parts of the west. It's printable, and contains a mail-in sheet at the back for reporting new cases of invasives that you come across.

Holiday guide on cool and useful gifts for the loved one in your life who owns, manages, or spends all their time out in the woods.

As promised, here is a listing of my favorite techie and wildlife-related gifts.

Shary Skoloff, a landowner with property on the Pennsylvania and New York border, recalls how she and her husband found a quiet piece of land, worked hard to nurture it back to a working farm and ultimately are leaving a legacy by sharing their connection to the land with the next generation.