Ramps, or wild onions, are harvested on private property in a forest near Baroda, Michigan, in 2015. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — When you think about poaching, ramps are likely ...

1. Forest fragmentation often results in a matrix of open areas mixed with patches of forest. Both biotic and abiotic factors can affect consumer species' ability to utilize the altered habitat, ...

There’s free food everywhere, if you know where to look. Falling Fruit, which maps publicly available produce in several countries, lists 554 edible varieties (mostly plants) in 570,000 locations.

Cass Read never drives past a forest without taking a very close look at her surroundings. While many might admire the towering timber or green foliage or even the wildlife that rainforest trees can ...

WASHINGTON — The terrain was tricky, the bugs were out, and the heat from the sun was growing more intense by the minute — but Drew Adams was determined to find mushrooms. After about 20 minutes of ...

The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Vol. 120, No. 3 (Sep., 2008), pp. 531-544 (14 pages) I examined how High Andean insectivorous birds partition resources in remnant Polylepis forest patches at three ...

Zach Papaleoni recently walked through Whisky Hollow Nature Preserve in Van Buren, scanning the forest floor. He bent down and plucked a small, tan-colored mushroom from the ground and twirled it in ...

Foraging; middle-class pastime or a cost-of-living godsend? In recent years, in an effort to get out of the house and back to nature many people have taken up foraging - the practice of looking for ...

Foraging; middle-class pastime or a cost-of-living godsend? In recent years, in an effort to get out of the house and back to nature many people have taken up foraging - the practice of looking for ...