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...breed in the small, temporary wetlands known as vernal pools. This next pool, he says, will certainly...boots and head out into the dead of night to study vernal pools and their denizens. Vernal pools are the most humble of wetlands-sometimes... |
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Spring Things: A Vernal Grab Bag
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...young men love to turn fancy. Or something like that. I forget how it goes. To each his own, I suppose. But March 20 is the Vernal Equinox - the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. And there's a new sky for us to become familiar with. Let... |
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Vernal Sightings
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WEEKEND: GARDENING: Get Ready to Spring into Action; GARDEN OWNERS URGED TO...
Byline: Ann Evans WHILE most people's gardens are looking neglected, it's the perfect time to work on preparations for spring and summer. ANN EVANS asked gardener Brian Ell for some tips. IT MIGHT still feel like the depths of winter, but the garden centres are full of all kinds of bulbs and seeds, |
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Phoenix Park, California
Among California's diverse habitats are vernal pools, depressions that fill with water in winter...prehistoric times, forming not only hundreds of vernal pools but even vernal lakes, which also disappeared during the dry summer... |
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Where Life Springs Ephemeral
...clasping a mate. The annual congress at the vernal pool is in session. Fed by snow and winter rains, vernal pools fill when spring arrives, then dry...known as temporary, or ephemeral, ponds, vernal pools have as their primary ecological characteristic... |
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Discovering Life
...one of my elective courses that spring was vernal pools. In case you don't know, a vernal pool is actually a big puddle in the middle...it is virtually teeming with life. Without vernal pools, the entire ecological balance of the... |
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A Teacher Finds 'Ahs' in the Ooze
...in temporary places in the forest known as vernal pools. Here in Maine, we are in the thick of vernal-pool season. Those of us in the know seize...diminutive size and their lack of an outlet. Vernal pools exist for only a while, and certain... |
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