Flatwoods flourish in the plains left by retreating glaciers millennia ago. They don’t quite feel like upland or bottomland forests. The trees are not necessarily all coniferous or deciduous or even all native. They are just as their name suggests. Flat. Woods.
“As flat as a pool table,” says Tom Lally of the woodlands.
With the growing interest in the success of the federally endangered Great Lakes population of Piping Plover, we thought it’d be good to get a quick refresher on where they’re at going into 2019.
Wildlife in urban areas is ubiquitous. But what is it like being one of the researchers tasked with doing traditional monitoring in such a non-traditional setting?