Kalamazoo Seasons

Juncos Junco hyemalis are one of the birds that migrate to Michigan for the winter. They spend summer feeding and breeding in Canada. Som...

Russ Forest is one of my favorite spots for spring wildflowers but I hadn't visited it in the winter. Last weekend, before the snow me...

On Friday afternoon, I was chatting with a friend in his office while college life went on outside his window: students walking across the u...

Eastern Screech Owls ( Otus asio ) are common in Michigan, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one in the wild. Like the other owls of ...

Kalamazoo's inconsistent winter means cross-country skiers need to take advantage of the snow when it does arrive. That often means fi...

It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels by Robert Penn 2010 While not a guidebook and not related to Kalamazoo,...

In 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, the author famous for the Last of the Mohicans , published a novel set in Kalamazoo titled Oak Openings . S...