Diapause

While Chasing Nature takes a short break, here's some summer reading on seashells, owls, fakery and extinction.

CHASING NATURE is on a short break while Ruth and I, and our pup Odin, find respite on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula. Although whales and gannets and a rare butterfly called Saltmarsh Copper beckon us north, it is tough to leave our home in Vermont. So much of our state remains in ruins after a horrific storm and flooding earlier this month.

My gratitude to all of you who’ve send along support. It means a lot to me.

I’ll also use this time away to think and write. In the meantime, here is a bit of reading from the Chasing Nature archives — early dispatches that many of you may not have seen. Thanks, everyone, for being here!

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