Emily M. Stone is a naturalist by birth, training, profession and passion. Her childhood spent as a “mud and water daughter” in northeast Iowa led to a degree in outdoor education from Northland College and a Field Naturalist Masters from the University of Vermont. As the naturalist/education director at the Cable Natural History Museum in Cable, Wisconsin, Emily writes a weekly “Natural Connections” column published in more than a dozen local and regional newspapers. She has also earned multiple Excellence in Craft awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. Emily’s second book, Natural Connections: Dreaming of an Elfin Skimmer, is on sale now at cablemuseum.org. She loves gardening, cross country skiing, mountain biking, and paddling in the Boundary Waters.
After the leaves come down, I start to notice all sorts of new things: moss-covered boulders, varying topography, the sparkle of a creek. “Stick season,”...
North Shore—While teaching winter plant identification for a wolf ecology field course in 2005, I read The Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolf O. Peterson....
A mainland red squirrel at Isle Royale. | EMILY STONE Isle Royale—Besides its significant natural beauty and storied history, the most notable thing about Isle...
North Shore—Starting around the Fourth of July, I begin watching my local cattail marsh like a hawk. Slowing my car and rubbernecking shamelessly, I search...