Senna Jenkins’ Capstone Project on Kudzu
by Senna Jenkins ’25 My name is Senna Jenkins, and I am working on a project that could potentially help incentivize kudzu eradication. Kudzu is an invasive, vining plant species …
Is Brushy Fork a Healthy Ecosystem?
Click here to read about the research conducted by Berea College student, Michael Mecham, this summer.
Do You Think the Wind is Angry?
Poem By Charity Gilbert I did not think the wind was angry, I took her as a child, running up the hillside. A wild one, full of life. Now that …
Meet the Weeds — Dandelion
You have probably heard of Kudzu, the invasive species that blankets huge areas of the Southeast in carpets of vines so thick they can starve even mature trees. And, at …
Rediscovering North America’s Lost Biome
It started with a few sentences in a book I was reading about the history of the Appalachian Mountains. The book briefly discussed Kentucky, before colonization, being covered with dense …
A Nature of Caretaking
by Abigail Kingston In an ecosystem, almost every organism depends on every other in some way for survival. However, the concept of symbiosis is taught to us in school like …
In 2023, Let’s Rediscover the Natural World through Curiosity
written by Abigail Kingston In a world suffering from the effects of colonization, profit-driven destruction of natural environments, and industrialization, humans are becoming more and more alienated from the natural …
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July 2022 Recent Additions to the Known Biodiversity of the Berea College Forest
July 2022 We added at least 35 new species to the project this month with a few dozen more waiting to be confirmed. Most of the new additions were pollinators …
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Can We Predict Eclipses?
by Jeff Hutton Hello Astronomers! For the last two weeks I’ve shared with you some of the thrill we’ve experienced when we’ve seen eclipses of the Sun and Moon. A …
Eclipses–Continued
by Jeff Hutton Hello Astronomers! In the last issue, we talked about shadows. Shadows are why we have special events like lunar and solar eclipses. Let’s look again at lunar …