Michael J. Kieffer
Beaver Believers- We Need More
Earth’s most prestigious engineer, the beaver (Castor canadensis), as no other mammal alters the shape of the landscape and is as...
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Mar 27, 2020
- 4 min
Greatest 20th Century Innovation and Its Lasting Legacy
As the world’s population has recently surpassed 7 billion, it seems to be a good time to review how that is even possible. At the turn...
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Mar 20, 2020
- 3 min
Life Depends on What’s Beneath
The most diverse and most numerous life forms on land happen to live underneath our feet. As the great entomologist E.O. Wilson has written
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Mar 19, 2020
- 6 min
Spring Singers
Frogs provide a major transfer of invertebrate and plant energy to animals higher up the food web to many fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Mar 3, 2020
- 4 min
The Log Hotel
With all the fires occurring year after year on the western side of the continental United States, it seemed a good time to revisit an...
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Jan 23, 2020
- 3 min
Winter Woods
Over the years, I have shared this article in many forums including our newsletter. While I feel a little like I am running a “clip show”...
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Michael J. Kieffer
- Jan 14, 2020
- 4 min
A Geologic History of the Bull Run Mountains
As the leaves continue to drop from the trees, the landscape seems to change from an ocean of green vegetation to one of grays and browns...
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