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American Serengeti cover art

A Great Loneliness: Looking for Animals on the Great Plains

Book review of American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains and Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores.

Matt Low

Matthew Low

Oct 5, 2017

Common snapping turtle

How to Perform Oral Surgery on a Snapping Turtle

When performing oral surgery on a snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), one must open its mouth and keep it open without losing a finger.

Jack Phillips

Jack Phillips

Oct 4, 2017

Dust storm

What Kind of Times Are These?

A poem.

Marjorie Saiser

Marjorie Saiser

Oct 4, 2017

Retain A Just Nebraska campaign kickoff

It’s Still Time to Abolish the Death Penalty

Executions do not make society safer or deter others from killing.

Fran Kaye

Fran Kaye

Oct 3, 2017

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Prairie Pines A-frame

Prairie Pines in Nebraska under New Management

Wachiska Audubon takes ownership of Prairie Pines from the University of Nebraska Foundation — but there’s more to the story.

Cris Trautner

Oct 24, 2024

Corporation money vs. climate change on unbalanced scales

How the Climate Crisis Is Transforming the Meaning of ‘Sustainability’ in Business

Companies’ concerns about climate change have typically been focused on their operational, financial, and reputational risks. Now, climate change is calling into question the traditional paradigm.

Raz Godelnik

Raz Godelnik

Jan 3, 2022

chorus frog

The Naked Naturalist

It’s true that “naturalist” sounds like “naturist” (nudists who believe clothing is a barrier to the natural world), but in this case, no clothes were removed.

Jack Phillips

Jack Phillips

Oct 20, 2021

Sarah Spitsen at Feya Candle's packing party

Feya Candle: Building Our Own Company

Nebraska business Feya Candle is successful and gives back with every sale, but the path began “out of a heaping pile of failure.”

Sarah Spitsen

Sarah Spitsen

Jun 13, 2019

Man with mobile phone in front of wind turbines

Soundscapes

There was a time, before industrialization and modern technology, when the only sounds heard outside of cities were from nature.

Elizabeth Mack

Elizabeth Mack

Jun 6, 2019

Spring Creek Prairie by Melissa Borman

At Spring Creek Prairie

A poem.

Charelene Neely by Marc Longbrake Photography

Charlene Neely

Apr 1, 2019

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