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New Book September 2018: Rust Belt Arcana

Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds By Matt Stansberry with Illustrations by David Wilson People have used Tarot [...]

Anne Trubek2017-08-31T09:30:38-04:00August 31, 2017|
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Overwhelmed by the Swarm: Brood V Periodical Cicadas

The cicadas have been winding down. Chitinous, black bodies crunch underfoot on my driveway every time I step out the front door.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:07-04:00August 15, 2016|
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A Maddening Quest For Calm And Spring Wildflowers

I became obsessed with wildflowers last spring. One April morning I had been slumped on my couch with my laptop, and suddenly panicked as if I was on a plane falling out of the sky.

Matt Stansberry2019-05-24T09:46:12-04:00May 10, 2016|
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Spring Salamander Gauntlet: Avoiding Raccoons, Sexual Parasitism, and Suburban Sprawl

It was the kind of morning I would never spend outside: 46-degrees Fahrenheit, rain running down the bare trees and pooling up on the muddy ground. Nothing looked alive.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:08-04:00March 31, 2016|
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Out All Night With Lake Erie’s Burbot Whisperer

In an undisclosed parking lot somewhere on the southern shore of Lake Erie, the weak December sun fizzled out like a match dropped in the snow.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:08-04:00February 18, 2016|
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Confessions Of A Reluctant Deer Hunter

Off in the far northwestern corner of Ohio near the town of Hicksville, I sat on an aluminum ladder lashed to a tree in the predawn gloom freezing my ass off.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:08-04:00January 21, 2016|
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Who Gives A Hoot? Searching For Owls By Moonlight On The Lake Erie Islands

Our pilgrimage began on a freakishly warm day in early November. A south wind calmed the lake as David Wilson and I crossed the four-mile stretch from the Marblehead Peninsula to Kelleys Island.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:09-04:00December 10, 2015|
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Fireflies: Glowing, Snail-sucking, Poisonous Hedonists

Thunderheads had been building, scudding across the northern plains for weeks, dumping rain into basements, swelling the rivers. Over eight and a half inches of rain fell in the month of June, the third wettest in Cleveland’s history.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:09-04:00September 10, 2015|
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Flipping Tin: Searching for Ohio’s Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes

On a hot, wet morning in May, I jumped into a pickup truck with Brett Rodstrom, VP of Eastern Field Operations for the Western Reserve Land Conservancy, and headed out to look for Eastern Massasauga rattlesnakes.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:09-04:00July 15, 2015|
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A Tree Hugger’s Guide To The Forest Dynamics of Northeast Ohio

About twenty miles east of downtown Cleveland, there is a stand of forest with trees older than the U.S. government.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:10-04:00April 23, 2015|
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The Season of Reanimation, Cannibalism, and Profligate Orgies: Consider the Wood Frog

On a cold wet night, practically still winter, wood frogs are improbably crawling out onto the dark road. These frogs are about two-inches long with tan bodies and dark robber’s masks.

Matt Stansberry2018-10-26T16:03:10-04:00April 22, 2015|
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The Rise and Mysterious Fall of the Prehistoric King of Cleveland

Lurking in the dark corners of Cleveland history: the Dunkleosteus. (From 2015).

Matt Stansberry2019-04-01T11:23:43-04:00March 31, 2015|
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