The application of new information technologies in natural history museums collections is not only making herbaria collections easily manageable. The datasets also facilitate the access to a large ...

The patches of lichen you’ve probably seen growing on tree trunks and park benches might be easy to overlook, but they’re actually some of the world’s strangest living things. While they're sometimes ...

Editors note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.

What am I going to do with these kids, I wondered. I had agreed to oversee an after-hours science club at a local elementary school to teach a bunch of third graders about ecology. I had been looking ...

Old-growth lichens, including Usnea spp., Flavoparmelia caperata, Evernia prunastri, Parmelina coleae., and Parmelia sp., attach themselves to a tree branch at the Quail Ridge Reserve. A UC Davis ...

I took a rather harrowing walk out back on Sunday. Snow squalls were threatening and the wind was tossing the tops of the giant spruce, hemlock and pine back and forth. Occasionally branches would ...

What am I going to do with these kids, I wondered. I had agreed to oversee an after-hours science club at a local elementary school to teach a bunch of third-graders about ecology. I had been looking ...