Article by Tom Kaye, Executive Director and Senior Ecologist at Institute for Applied Ecology, and originally published on Oct. 9, 2017 on their website, www.appliedeco.org. “I got one!” Steve Cary calls through a thicket of seep willow in full bloom. He’s...
By Karen Haley, Friends Member In the predawn cold of a New Mexico morning, the vinyl seats of an old school bus were hard and cold, but that couldn’t dampen the anticipation as the bus bumped along in the dark, heading into the refuge. It seemed a small price to pay...
Photo by Charles Sterling The Bosque del Apache’s Festival of the Cranes is one of the most spectacular wildlife events in North America. Every year, thousands of cranes and other migratory birds flock to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, located...
What we know – and some good news! During our recent Festival of the Cranes, we heard several questions and comments about the number of birds on the refuge. There seem to be fewer sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache this season – is everything okay? I see lots of...
The Johnson-Su method, requires little manual labor, no turning and produces no odors. The compost end product has the consistency of clay when mature. It can be applied as an extract, mixed as a slurry to coat seeds that you intend to plant in large farming...
