We begin this month’s observations with a term that was unfamiliar to me.  Maybe it has just slipped my mind as it only takes place every 18.6 years, but the event is known as ‘lunistice’ (also called a ‘lunar standstill’).  Lunistice is kind of like a ‘solstice’ only it involves the Moon and not the […]

       When the St. Lawrence Seaway was constructed in the 1950s, it opened a whole new era of commerce stretching from the Atlantic coast all the way to Duluth, Minnesota.  It also rolled out the red carpet for a host of invasive species.  Some (like the sea lamprey) were already here by then while others […]