Well, I would like to give each of my grandchildren a squirrel hunt on a brisk October afternoon to introduce them to the excitement and wonder and reality of hunting, of the blood sports. We live in a society where we are divorced from the natural world and its workings, the reciprocal ...
Northern Hemisphere forests and shrublands are now dominated by species comprising temperate and subtropical lineages, marking one of the major floristic transitions in the vegetation history of the Cenozoic1,2,3. Paleobotanical reconstructions suggest that a cooling global climate afforded ecological oppor...