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This page provides access to archive copies of my “Lost Pines Nature Notes” column that is now published weekly in the Smithville Times. Note that these are presented “as submitted” (rather than “as published”) and in a single page format (Adobe Acrobat PDF—if you don't have Acrobat Reader then download it here), not as they appeared in the paper.

I present these so readers may catch-up on columns they may have missed and to be able to present the photos (including supplementary unpublished photos in some cases) in color rather than the black + white format of the newspaper column. I plan to update this page every 10 to 12 weeks (columns) so please stop back sometime.

For columns from 2005, please visit the Archives Page 1, for 2006 columns, please visit Archives Page 2.

File	Publication Date	Headline / Photo Subject
LPNN86	January 4, 2007	Pocket Gopher Visits Bird Feeders, Eat Seeds! / Attwater's Pocket Gopher
LPNN87	January 11, 2007	Wet Winter is Perfect for Mushrooms / Small Red Waxy Cap
LPNN88	January 18, 2007	We Can Learn A Lot From Birds... / Inca Doves
LPNN89	January 25, 2007	Ice Storm '07 Ends on Sunny Note / Hackberry Twig in Ice
LPNN90	February 8, 2007	Seasonal Affective Naturalist Disorder / Ring-Necked Ducks
LPNN91	February 15, 2007	Frantic February Birds Flock Feeders / Pine Warbler
LPNN92	February 22, 2007	Looks Like Spring a-Coming / Southern Spreadwing Damselfly
LPNN93	March 1, 2007	Allergy Sufferers Beware! Pollen Season is Upon Us / Eastern Red Cedar
LPNN94	March 8, 2007	Spring Wildflowers, Winter Butterflies / Gulf Fritillary + Curve-Pod Corydalis
LPNN95	March 15, 2007	More Signs of Spring, Both Good and Bad / Mexican Plum + Gray Hairstreak
LPNN96	March 22, 2007	East Texas: It's Where We Live / Carolina Anemone
LPNN97	April 5, 2007	So Much to Do, So Little Time... / Southern Dewberry
LPNN98	April 12, 2007	Caterpillars Wandering Everywhere! / Variegated Fritillary Caterpillar
LPNN99	April 19, 2007	Nearby Prairies Alive With Color / Foxglove Penstemon
LPNN100	April 26, 2007	Some Days You Just Never Know What Will Happen / Price's Woodsorrel
LPNN101	May 3, 2007	Nature Keeps Naturalists Interested in Nature / Unicorn (Schizura) caterpillar
LPNN102	May 10, 2007	Mother Nature Strikes Back! / lightning-struck Loblolly Pine
LPNN103	May 17, 2007	The Heat is On! / Monarch butterfly roosting on field fence
LPNN104	May 24, 2007	More Than Pines / Texas Powdered Skipper, Spiny Oak Slug caterpillar
LPNN105	May 31, 2007	It Takes a Plant to Raise an Insect Community / Green Milkweed + insects
LPNN106	June 7, 2007	Technology and the Modern Naturalist / Black Swallowtail, Texas Thistle
LPNN107	June 14, 2007	You Know It's Hot in Texas When… / Checkered Setwing Dragonfly
LPNN108	June 21, 2007	Wet Weather Perfect…for Fungivores! / Tremellodendron (false coral fungus)
LPNN109	July 5, 2007	Strange Critters? I've Seen a Few… / owlfly (Ascaloptynx appendiculatus)
LPNN110	July 12, 2007	Butterflies Seek Sun, Flowers Between Downpours / Viceroy butterfly
LPNN111	July 19, 2007	Snakes On Wet Ground... / Coral Snake
LPNN112	July 26, 2007	Learning to Appreciate the Geometry of Nature / spider web & mushrooms
LPNN113	August 2, 2007	Flowers Need Pollinators, Pollinators Need Flowers / Ruby-throated Hummer
LPNN114	August 9, 2007	Rubyspot Damsels Return for 3rd Year / American Rubyspot
LPNN115	August 16, 2007	A Cornucopia of Caterpillars! / skippers and little yellow caterpillars
LPNN116	August 23, 2007	Gosselink's "Satan Death Flies" Common  / Houston, Gulf-Coast Toads
LPNN117	August 30, 2007	A Passion for Passionvines...and their Butterflies / Maypop (P. incarnata)
LPNN118	September 6, 2007	Where a Texas Mourning Cloak Spends the Summer / Mourning Cloak butterfly
LPNN119	September 13, 2007	Multicolored Orbweavers are a Mystery / Spiny-backed Orbweaver spiders
LPNN120	September 20, 2007	A Fond Farewell, and a Warm Welcome / Groundbreaking for SLP GH

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Last revised: September 12, 2007.