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Alongside the narrow mouth of Coney Island Creek and the expanse of Gravesend Bay, Calvert Vaux Park is named for the English-born architect who teamed up with Frederick Law Olmsted for the designs of Central and Prospect Parks. Long overshadowed by Olmsted, whose sons carried the family name and profession of landscape architecture into the…

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City Nature Challenge starts tomorrow. Remember, for iNaturalist purposes, plants planted by people (yesterday, or in the case of a tree, a century ago) aren’t considered wild: so most plants in gardens, parks, street trees, etc., are “captive/cultivated” casual observations. And be circumspect with locations of rare, endangered, or threatened life forms. Plant hunters, mushroom…

It recently came to my attention that Carol Gracie, a reader of this blog, died back in October. The three of her books above should be in every northeastern naturalist’s library.