NATURE NOTE - Number 58                                                                                             December 14, 2022

Introduction:

First, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year,  etc. to everyone.

I have been thinking up topics, researching, writing, editing and having NATURE NOTES posted on the council web site every two weeks since July 2020.  This is the 58th one.  I enjoy doing them and have learned a lot by producing them.  But, since it is the Holiday Season I want to tell you…

Our current Topic:  What I want for Christmas

All I want for Christmas from you, the readers of NATURE NOTES, is to take 5 minutes – OK, 3 minutes - and sent me a present in the form of a short, quick email telling me your thoughts on NATURE NOTES .  Are you reading them?  Do you use them and how?  Do you share them?  Do you have suggestions for topics?   I know it’s a busy time of the year.  It is for me also, but I just got out another NATURE NOTE on time. I know there are readers out there.  I can get the number of hits on each NATURE NOTE posted to the website, and I have talked to some of you personally, but I would really like go into 2023 knowing that the readers out there are, in some way, getting something out of these NOTES, even if it is just personal interest.  Hopefully some of you have found ways to use them with your scouts. 

Writing these is my main contribution to scouting now.  I am not sure how much longer I will do it, but I still enjoy putting in the work for them.  I have some new topics in the works for 2023.  NATURE NOTES are the only thing routinely posted to the council web site that can give you material to use in your scouting program all year round, either formally or just as info to help answer questions about nature or point out something that may pop up. 

If you think these notes are a waste of my time and yours, tell me and I’ll just go stroll in the woods.  Are they too long?  Too short?  PLEASE let me know something, even if it is one-liner just telling me that you read them frequently.  Thank you for whatever you give me at Bobg36@gmail.com.   

Finally, I want to say a great big THANK YOU to Gilbert Armour who has faithfully posted these notes to the website for the last 2 ½ years.  Thanks Gilbert!!!!

Bob Garst

 

Here is list of the NATURE NOTES, by Number and Topic, posted in 2022.  All are still accessible on the BRMC web site.  Earlier notes are also available.

36   Owls

37   Bats

38   Water pollution

39   Woodpeckers

40   Soil

41   Deer

42   Springtime

43   Pollination

44   Conservation Projects

45   Forest Insects

46   Forest Patterns

47   Salamanders

48   Arthropods

49   Grasses, vines and ferns

50   Humming Birds

51   Butterflies, moths and stealth bombers

52   Armadillos

53   The Blue Ridge Mountains

54    Forests of Europe

55    Plant Succession

56   Words

57   Urban Forestry