One of my favorite memories was when we first moved to Maine, over 30 years ago, and discovered vernal pools (our house was surrounded by them). Vernal pools are seasonal forested wetlands that fill ...

In the early spring, a lot of biological activity takes place around vernal ponds — those shallow ponds, usually but not always in woodlands, that have water in the spring and fall but dry completely ...

Volunteer Jim Spinale enlarges an image of a live fairy shrimp for preschoolers at the South Shore YMCA Nature Center ...