After watching Canada jays, red squirrels, and boreal chickadees stuff their bellies with peanut butter at the Admiral Road feeders in Sax-Zim Bog, my family and I wandered over to the Friends of …

A cacophony of sweet bird calls added brightness to the sunny morning as my family pulled up to a yard full of bird feeders in Sax-Zim Bog Important Bird Area about an hour northwest of Duluth, …

My skis chattered over rough snow on the Valhalla Ski Trails that are perched on the spine of the Bayfield Peninsula. Several loops zoom from dark stands of pines through the lacy twigs of hardwood …

I stared open-mouthed in disbelief at the cat crossing the neighborhood street in front of my new house in Silver Bay, Minnesota (I’ll be moving up full time in 2027). Trotting purposefully on long …

The last leg of my morning commute takes me from the museum’s parking lot to the front doors. Though short, this walk is often filled with birdsongs. Chickadees can always be counted on, blue jays …

“‘I know the moon,’ said the fox.”  My colleague read this title line aloud from a children’s book recently, as part of a staff training. At first, I was just as enchanted with …

Years ago, Lois Nestel, the Museum’s founding director, wrote: “I was stalking a pileated woodpecker whose calls and rapid fire hammerings seemed to come consistently from one area of trees not …

The wide brown trunk of an ash tree in front of my house makes a good backdrop for assessing the density of falling snowflakes, their potential impact on the ski trails, and the unique beauty of a …

This is the season for lists highlighting our most-listened-to or best-of-whatevers at the end of the year, so I decided to dig into the stats on my Natural Connections blog. To my surprise, the …

Dawn was disappointingly gray over Lake Superior. Having been given a rare chance to wake up with a lake view, I’d hoped for something a little more spectacular. But a touch of color warmed the far …

By Heaven Walker | Educator/Naturalist at the Cable Natural History Museum It was an early morning at the Cable Natural History Museum as I loaded up the van with our MuseumMobile totes, gearing …

Lake Superior was astonishingly calm as we walked out to a rocky point in the last rays of the setting sun. With no wind and temperatures well above normal for late November, my fiance and I only …

“A long time ago, the owner of that cornfield asked if I would sell this little piece of relatively flat woods to him,” my dad told me while walking me through a section of my …

The shallow water in Northwoods marshes and bays began to crackle with a skim of ice recently, gently reminding everyone that winter is on the way. Ice-up is a firm deadline for many beings who …

Wet autumn leaves drifting among rugged chunks of hard gray quartzite on the trails at Rib Mountain State Park in Wausau forced my attention to my feet as I hiked. Even with trekking poles, this was …

“Turn here, they’re heading north!” I directed my fiance as we navigated the gravel roads of Crex Meadows Wildlife Area near Grantsburg. We’d spotted a line of sandhill cranes …