Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Ridgewood Reservoir

  • Field Trip: Our Sunken Forest

    We took our first trip to Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir last weekend. Straddling the Brooklyn/Queens border, the park and accidental nature preserve deserve to be better known outside of their surrounding neighborhoods. More about our discoveries in Highland will be in my next post. But what’s all this about a Reservoir and accidental nature…

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