Preserving NATURE; Signs of Life Are Bringing Mequon Site Closer to Blossoming
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By TOM KERTSCHER  Work is continuing on the Mequon Nature Preserve. Workers renovating the former Spirit Life Church on the property began removing the roof this month from the church building, which is being transformed into the PieperPower Education Center.
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By Neil Gonzales  REDWOOD CITY -- A stretch of the San Francisco Bay Trail will likely undergo a realignment as part of a major habitat-restoration project on Bair Island.
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By Janice Gaston, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--HILTON HEAD, S.C.   Late on a misty day, when the wind sighs through trees lining a deserted road and sets their beards of Spanish moss to fluttering, nature takes center stage here.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 19--The air has turned cooler and clearer, promising the end to a long fire season.
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By Sallie James, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 8--CORAL SPRINGS -- With every scoop made by a rumbling trackhoe, injured turtles and waterbirds came closer this week to having a new home at the Sawgrass Nature Center.
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Trees bring both comfort and measurable benefits to urban environments. The problem is that roots don't flourish under pavement. Now scientists think they have a solution.
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By John F. Bonfatti  While the state Department of Environmental Conservation finalizes a management plan for its nearly 3,000 acres in Zoar Valley, the Nature Conservancy is adding property to its holdings in and around the scenic Cattaraugus Creek gorge.
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By Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Dec. 17--By Maureen Houston Two sweet gum trees towering over Elna Rosenberger's yellow frame home in Cahokia came from southeastern Kentucky as saplings. So did the tulip poplar in back.
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By KELLEY BOUCHARD Staff Writer  Portland's historic Eastern Cemetery isn't the first place you'd think to go read a book, take a stroll or have a picnic under a flowering crab apple tree.  With good reason.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Dec. 16--TEWKSBURY -- An area that would feature clean and environmentally friendly industries, with green spaces and a strong commercial tax base -- all with minimal traffic impacts to surrounding neighborhoods.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 3--MOSS POINT -- Egrets wheeling in the sky and pelicans foraging in Bennett Bayou on Friday morning incited a smile from Judy Steckler. "Isn't that a beautiful sight?" she said.
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By Paul Burgarino  MANTECA -- The site of an old photoprocessing plant could frame the picture of housing development in Manteca in the upcoming year.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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A puzzling site grew more curious with the release of a satellite photograph showing new construction there that resembles the siteâs former main building.
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By CHRIS YOUNG OUTDOORS EDITOR  A tulip tree that towers over Oakland Cemetery near Ann Rutledge's grave in Petersburg is due for some preventive maintenance.
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By Allen Pierleoni, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--Two more products arrived in the marketplace recently, more of the gear that attends outdoor recreation to the point that the gear becomes an industry in itself.
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HENNEPIN, Ill. -- As steam rises from flat fingers of water reflecting an iron-gray sky, Donald Hey climbs to the top of an observation tower to watch a flock of American white pelicans huddled among the reeds. These reclaimed wetlands along the Illinois River, a man-made vista of corn and soybeans...