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Smokey’s Tips for Outdoor Safety

In the summer, it can be a lot of fun spending time outside and making campfires with friends and family. However, it can also be dangerous if you aren't aware of proper safety techniques. Smokey the Bear is here to...

Consider Pollinators When Planning Your Garden

An often overlooked part of the ecosystem responsible for our food and environmental health are the pollinators. This group of animals move pollen from flower to flower, fertilizing seeds, fruits and vegetables. Pollinators include honey bees, native bees, moths, beetles, birds and bats, and...

Be Careful Around Highly Toxic Poison Hemlock Plant This Summer

Made infamous through the trial of Socrates, Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth, and several other works of classic literature, poison hemlock is an extremely toxic plant that will pose a risk this summer and should be handled with caution. Poison hemlock is a biennial...

Mushroom ‘Tree of Life’ Unlocked Using Purdue Fungi Collections

Mushrooms are strange forms of life. Some can kill you within hours, some are psychedelic hallucinogens and others are just good on a pizza. There are estimated to be six to 20 times more species of fungi than plants, and a lot...

Weather Conditions Promoting Terrestrial Algae

  In this month's column of In the Grow, B. Rosie Lerner, Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulturist, addresses algae that can pop up on stone, concrete, gravel or even lawns this summer as we are getting large amounts of hot, rainy weather....

Emerald Ash Borer Found in Howard County

Article by Pat Munsey, taken from KokomoPerspective.com: The ash borer beetle is a scourge that has spread across the Midwest for more than a decade, laying waste to trees as it burrows and feeds. Now it is in Howard County. Ash trees...

K-12 Teachers and Students Sing-Along With Hellbender Video

A new sing-along music video has been added to the Help the Hellbender website. This provides a fun and catchy way for teachers and students to learn about hellbenders and see the researchers hard at work helping add to their numbers. The Help the Hellbender website also has...

Less Than 25% of Forest Areas Remain in IN

​Historically, forests dominated the land of Indiana, covering about 85% of Indiana prior to European contact and settlement. However, now less than 25% of our forested areas remain—and more than 85% of those areas are privately owned. Urban woodlots are...

Publication: Breeding Birds and Forest Management: the Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment and the Central Hardwoods Region

The focus of forest science is increasingly shifting to the management of forests as complex systems rather than as simple agricultural landscapes—with a much greater appreciation for the interactive ecosystem processes. In addition, now for many forest landowners, the ecological...

New Purdue Extension Website Helps to Protect Endangered Mussels in the Tippecanoe River

Mussels are a critical part of the ecosystem and work hard to keep our rivers clean. The Tippecanoe River hosts over 45 species of mussels, including six endangered ones. Mussel populations are in decline after being harvested by the millions...

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