Posts tagged with “Arb Talk” (All posts)
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Inventorying Arb Species
3 February 2023Carleton’s Arb houses a plethora of species. It is difficult, impossible really, to determine all of the species that inhabit the Arb. Many species have been observed, but despite intensive searching, many can easily avoid detection.
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Fifty Shades of Cardinals
27 January 2023It’s winter. It’s cold. It’s freezing your ears off every time you exit the building. The glaring white snow, though ethereal and enchanting, stings your eyes as you carefully tread between sheets of dangerously dark ice.
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What’s Still Out There
9 January 2023These days, a cool blanket of snow has come to rest over all of campus, and when the temperatures drop below zero, it’s hard to imagine leaving the Complex, much less living out there. How do different Minnesotan fauna survive, and which animals might still be active when you walk (or ski, or snowshoe) the Arb?
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The Science of Fall
11 November 2022If you’ve ever heard anyone say that it “smells like fall”, they’re not making it up– the processes that plant life go through while preparing for winter produce the odors you might have noticed.
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The Dormant Giant
4 November 2022Garlic Mustard, or Alliaria petiolata, is native to Europe and usually found from Czechoslovakia to Italy. Now the weed can be found in areas such as New Zealand, North Africa, and North America. It was introduced to North America in 1868, with the first reported sighting in Long Island, New York.
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The Arboretum and Student Life
28 October 2022Carleton students have a wide range of experiences with the Arboretum. Although there are countless activities for students to choose from when exploring the Arb, many students have a hard time incorporating the Arb into their routine.
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Holes on Dead Trees and Strange Wasps
21 October 2022Some insects have the strangest, sci-fi-like characteristics. On some dead trees in the Arb, sometimes you can see small but deep holes on the trunk. The holes can be caused by many insects, among them two kinds of wasps that are particularly intriguing – pigeon horntails (Tremex columba) and giant ichneumon wasps (Megarhyssa genus).
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If there are birds that perplex novices and experts alike, the warblers are sure to be among them.
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Black Walnut
7 October 2022Walk down by the Cannon River these days and you are sure to find (or trip over, like I do) green and browning spheres the size of golf balls. These are the fruit of the native black walnut (Juglans nigra).
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(Very Few) Dangers in the Arb
30 September 2022Violence, bloodshed, disease, horror, and death. In the Arb, dangers lurk at every corner, and every day is a new struggle to survive, but not for humans.
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