“I’m trying to imagine what it would be like going through life not knowing the names of the plants and animals around you,” writes Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer in “Braiding Sweetgrass.” “I think it would ...

Last year, in an issue of our monthly newsletter for Yakima Master Gardeners, Jenny Mansfield recounted a stroll through her winter garden on the way to refilling the bird feeders. She noted that Lamb ...

ZOOLOGISTS and botanists universally adopt what is termed the binomial system of nomenclature invented by Linnæus. The essential principle of this system is, that every species of animal or plant is ...