by Erik Baard
Far inland, a wind
lifts fine snow from ancient pines.
Shimmers like sea spray.
I wrote that haiku twenty years ago intending to show the sensual commonality of contrasting locales, pointing toward our shared experiences across superficial cultural divides. Only today, while poking around data piles about pines in this tanenbaum time of year, did I [...]
Archive for the ‘Insects’ Category
Eastern White Pine, the “Great Tree of Peace”
Posted in Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Fungi, Insects, Invertebrates, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Trees, Vertebrates, Winter, volunteer, tagged broad arrow, conifer, eastern white pine, ecology, environment, erik baard, fibonacci, fish and wildlife service, forest, friends of gateway, greater astoria historical society, haiku, haudenosaunee, inwood, iroquois, lic community boathouse, Million Trees NYC, native american, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york city, parks and recreation, pelham, pilgrim, thoreau, tree planting, Trees, urban, white pine on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Habana Happy Hour Tonight! Green Teachers, Green Grub!
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Streams, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, clouds, volunteer, tagged audubon center, Birds, children, education, environment, forests, habana outpost, meadow, nature calendar, nyc audubon, prospect park alliance, soil, teachers, urban ecology, Winter, winter warm up on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi All!
NYC’s greenest restaurant, Habana Outpost, is hosting a “Winter Warm Up” talk and happy hour. Learn about Prospect Park and the Audubon Center while mixing with fun and friendly teachers. Oh yeah, and enjoy Habana Outpost’s delicious food, party atmosphere, and ecological model before it shuts on Oct 31!
More info through this link:
http://habanaworks.org/
And read [...]
Eco-Arts, Free Admission Party Tonight (10/03)!
Posted in Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fall, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Grasses, Insects, Plants, Recreation, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, volunteer, tagged art, Atom Cianfarani, beer, Birds, Brooklyn, dave nardone, erik baard, Gardens, gowanus, habitat, kelso, museum of modern art, nature calendar, naturecalendar.com, new york city, rain, rainwater, urban ecology, Water on October 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TONIGHT: Free admission to a party of environmentalists and art lovers!
Beer by Kelso of Brooklyn!
DJ Dave “Roosting Box” Nardone!
What’s all the fuss about?
Well, sometimes hardened urbanites think that it would take green alchemy to create habitat on our mean streets. The good folks at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn (119 8th Street, between 2nd [...]
WildWire: June 21-25
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged audubon, bike new tork, biking, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river alliance, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, clearwater festival, conservancy, Downtown Boathouse, east river, edible, erik baard, foraging, fort tryon, gowanus, hiking, hudson river, inwood, just foods, kayaking, lic, long island city, Manhattan, marine park, mike feller, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new york restoration, nyrp, orchard beach, peter tagatac, Prospect Park, Queens, queens botanical, recycle-a-bicycle, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, socrates sculpture park, Staten Island, sustainable south bronx, topofthelawn, totten, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, walking, wave hill, wildflowers, wildman steve brill, wildwire on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Happy Solstice! Summer is here, and life is booming. Make sure you head down to Jamaica Bay to see cacti, horseshoe crabs, and diamondback terrapin turtles! Or get lost in a world of wildflowers and butterflies in Pelham Bay Park. As for the loveliness above…never again will you speak ill of Staten Island without feeling [...]
WildWire: June 13-June 18
Posted in Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, volunteer, wildwire, tagged adventures nyc, amateur, Astronomy, audubon, backpacker magazine, battery park city, bike new york, Birds, blue heron, boathouse, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterfly, canoe, Central Park, conservancy, critical mass, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, floyd bennet field, forest park, fort tryon, fort washington, gantry neighborhood parks, great kills, greenpoint, hudson river, inwood hill, inwood hill park, jane bailey, kayak, kayaking, kissena park, lic, mulberry, National Parks Service, nature calendar, nature center, Nature Network, naturecalendar, new york city, new york restoration project, nyrp, park, pelham bay, Prospect Park, river project, Rocking the Boat, salt marsh, sebago, time's up!, Trees, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt, volunteer, wagner park, wave hill, willowbrook on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Oh, the burden of choice! With a hyper-fun suite of Adventures NYC events sponsored by Backpacker Magazine adding to our usually full menu of eco-recreation, you may find your head spinning a bit!
As always, FREE is the rule and we have a mix of family-friendly events and adult socials.
A few highlights include: a [...]
WildWire: June 5-June 11
Posted in Amphibians, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, wild eyed, tagged alley pond park, alliance, american museum of natural history, amnh, battery park city, biking, Birds, blooming, blue heron park, Bronx, bronx river, Brooklyn, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, Central Park Conservancy, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, erik baard, Estuary, Flowers, forest park, free, gantry plaza state park, garden, greenbelt, hudson river, kayak, kayaking, lic community boathouse, long island city, magical garden, Manhattan, marine park, national trails day, nature calendar, naturecalendar, new jersey, new york, new york city, portside new york, Queens, queens west, red hook boaters, ring, riverdale park, riverside, Rocking the Boat, Staten Island, time's up!, tour de queens, trail conference, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, valentino park, van cortlandt park, volunteer, volunteering, wave hill, wildman steve brill on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What a weekend and week ahead New York City’s natural world and its stewards offers you! We have a barrel of FREE events, and a couple of cheap ones (as you know, paid events are the great exception on WildWire) that support green allies and cover basic costs.
Highlights include the Tour de Queens, a [...]
NYC Prickly Pear Day?
Posted in Birds, Brooklyn, Edible Plants, Estuary, Flowers, Gardens, Insects, Invertebrates, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Queens, Summer, tagged anthers, cactus, charles darwin, cure, Edible Plants, erik baard, flower, hangover, herbal remedies, Jamaica Bay, klaus schoenwiese, mexican food, nature calendar, new york cactus and succulent society, new york city, opuntia, platelet function, prickly pear, recipes, urban ecology, urban environment, wild, wildlife refuge, www.tribeofman.com on June 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Erik Baard
In my youthful urbanite naïveté I used to view the idea of a flowering cactus as a discordant mixture of elements, a kind of vegetative platypus. Little did I know that June brings forth gorgeous cactus flowers in the dry spots of own archipelago. Take a moment to admire the prickly pear, or [...]
Save the Mosquitoes!
Posted in Amphibians, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Fish, Fresh Water, Gardens, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Mammals, Manhattan, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Reptiles, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Vertebrates, Water, wild eyed, tagged and Ross River fever, antigua sun, b1, Babylonian Talmud, bee watchers, bees, Birds, Bronx, DDT, dengue fever, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, elephantiasis, Emperor Titus, encephalitis, environmental protection agency, EPA, erik baard, joel kupferman, lobsters, malaria, mosquitoes, mosquitos, nature calendar, new york city, new york times, Paul Hermann Müller, pollinators, Queens, rachel carson, Rift Valley fever, silent spring, Staten Island, temple, urban ecology, urban environment, village voice, vitamin, west nile, yellow fever on May 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
by Erik Baard
Last night I saw my first mosquito of the season, flying into my bedroom, hot on my carbon dioxide trail. I lost track of it, but minutes later I heard the soft buzz of menace in my ear. One must never underestimate the dangers of mosquitoes. Emperor Titus was driven made by one [...]
WildWire: May 28-June 4
Posted in Amphibians, Astronomy, Atlantic Ocean, Birds, Bronx, Brooklyn, Crustaceans, Edible Plants, Estuary, Fish, Flowers, Fresh Water, Fungi, Gardens, Geology, Grasses, Insects, Invertebrates, Lakes, Long Island Sound, Mammals, Manhattan, New York Harbor, Parks, Plants, Ponds, Queens, Recreation, Reptiles, Snakes, Spring, Staten Island, Streams, Summer, Trees, Vertebrates, Water, butterflies, tagged american museum of natural history, Astronomy, audubon, bicycling, biking, birding, Birds, blue heron park, bronx river, Brooklyn, butterflies, canoe, canoeing, Central Park, conference house, cuny, cycling, department of parks and recreation, Downtown Boathouse, east river, erik baard, Fish, fort tryon park, fresh kills, gardening, governors island, hayden planetarium, hiking, inwood hill park, kayaking, lic community boathouse, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, manhattanhenge, marine park, naturalist, nature center, neil degrasse tyson, new york city, orchard beach, paddling, Pelham Bay Park, Prospect Park, Queens, safewalk, salt marsh, seining, Staten Island, time's up!, urban ecology, urban environment, urban park rangers, van cortlandt park, walking, wildflowers on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Editor’s note: Please accept my apologies that some editing and link work must be redone due to a wifi interruption and WordPress/Word glitch. It will be done tonight, but for now you can see the events and most of the needed information.
ALERT! Break out the “sacrificial” champagne. It’s time for Manhattanhenge! Come see the sun [...]
