A dolphin has been putting on a show around the southern tip of the Key Peninsula.
“The acrobatics I witnessed were incredible and unlike anything else outside of Sea World,” said …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/27/20
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Been thinking about bats. I’ve been going out on the beach after dusk to spend time with them. As a kid, I threw rocks and watched them pick up my projectiles with their echolocation. They …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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8/6/20
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Using science to limit slug damage. Slugs are different things to different people: a gardener’s nightmare, a forest worker breaking down decomposing forest vegetation, …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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5/29/20
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Coyotes are singing on the peninsula. They wake me in the wee hours. My mind needs a good minute or two to figure out if the eerie sounds
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/29/20
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The Asian giant hornet, an invasive species with a craving for honey bees, has been spotted in northwestern Washington.
A winged giant has found its way to Washington …
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Caleb Galbreath, KP News
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5/29/20
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Springtime comes to the peninsula. The soil warms and bird songs light up the mornings. In the forest you no longer tramp recklessly …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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5/1/20
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Walk the peninsula’s beaches this time of year and you won’t find much of a high tide line. Gone are the mounds of seaweed, the …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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4/30/20
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While the Key Peninsula’s hillsides collapse under rain that reveals how we’re all just sitting on a …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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3/1/20
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Walk the peninsula’s beaches this time of year and you won’t find much of a high tide line. Gone are the mounds of seaweed, the …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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1/2/20
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It is late fall. Plants have slumped and yellow-brown maple leaves rot where they land …
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Chris Rurik, Special to the KP News
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11/1/19
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As the rain returns to accompany us through winter, so do the banana slugs. It’s not that they go somewhere else for the summer — …
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Nancyrose Houston
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11/1/19
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Living in a rural location inevitably means having a relationship with Mother Nature. And sometimes that relationship gets complicated. Bay Lake residents have been …
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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7/1/19
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